snowbell family
Styracaceae
The Styracaceae are a small family of flowering plants in the order Ericales, containing 12 genera and about 160 species of trees and shrubs. The family occurs in warm temperate and subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
The family is characterised by spirally arranged simple leaves with no stipules; symmetrical white flowers with a corolla of two to five (sometimes seven) fused petals; and the fruit usually is a dry capsule, sometimes winged, less often a fleshy drupe, with one or two seeds.
12 branches of this family, most-observed first
snowbells
genusStyrax
silverbells
genusHalesia
Alniphyllum
genusAlniphyllum
Sinojackia
genusSinojackia
Pterostyrax
genusPterostyrax
Rehderodendron
genusRehderodendron
Melliodendron
genusMelliodendron
Huodendron
genusHuodendron
Perkinsiodendron
genusPerkinsiodendron
Changiostyrax
genusChangiostyrax
Bruinsmia
genusBruinsmia
Parastyrax
genusParastyrax
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 61874.