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Family Strelitziaceae

Description: Herbs or trees.

Leaves distichously arranged, often big.

Flowers bisexual, arranged in the axil of a spathe; sepals 3, free or more or less adnate to the corolla; petals 3, variously connate, sometimes very unequal in size; stamens 5(6), sometimes the 6th is petaloid; anthers linear, 2-locular with parallel loculi; ovary inferior, 3-locular, with 1–many ovules; style filiform.

Fruit a capsule, lociulicidally 3-valved [or indehiscent]; seeds arillate [or not].


Distribution and occurrence: World: 3 genera, 1 each in southern Africa, Madagascar and Brazil. Australia: 1 genus naturalised.

External links:
Angiosperm Phylogeny Website (Family: Strelitziaceae, Order: Zingiberales)
Wikipedia

Commonly cultivated as ornamentals.

Text by KL Wilson (Nov 2015)
Taxon concept:

One genus in NSW: Strelitzia

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