Violet plants (Violaceae) are a family within the Malpighiales. The kind most well-known with us are the violets (Viola).

Description

There is one year's and krautige plants of several years or holzige plants: Half bushes, bushes, trees and Lianen.

There are both kinds with blooms therefore also kinds with zygomorphen blooms. The blooms are arranged always into cup and crown. Both are just like the dust sheet circle. The Fruchtknoten consists of three deformed with one another

With most kinds the fruit is a cap. There are however also kinds, which form berries or nut fruits. With many kinds the seeds have a Arillus, so that they are often kidnapped by ants.

The sheets are change constant. Many kinds have

Spreading

The family covers 800 kinds, which occur world-wide. The holzigen kinds mainly in the tropical low country, most krautigen kinds into that the moderate zones of the earth. The species-richest centers lie in North America, the Anden and Japan. One finds it however also in Australia.

Systematics

The family of the violets (Violaceae) arranged into three Unterfamilien: Violoideae, Leonioideae and Fusispermoideae. It contains 23 kinds with 800 kinds:

Unterfamilie Fusispermoideae:

Fusispermum

Unterfamilie Leonioideae:

Leonia

Unterfamilie Violoideae:

Tri bus Rinoreeae

Subtribus Hymenantherinae

Hymenanthera

Melicytus

Subtribus Isodendriinae

Isodendrion

Subtribus Paypayrolinae

Amphirrhox

Hekkingia

Paypayrola

Subtribus Rinoreinae

Allexis

Decorsella (including Gymnorinorea)

Gloeospermum

Rinorea (including Alsodeia, Phyllanoa, Scyphellandra)

Rinoreocarpus

Tri bus Violeae

Agatea (including Agation)

Anchietea

Corynostylis

Hybanthopsis

Hybanthus (including Acentra Clelandia, Cubelium, Ionidium, Pigea)

Mayanaea

Noisettia

Orthion

Schweiggeria

Violet (Viola) (including Erpetion, Mnemion)

Related links

• Violaceae with GRIN

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