Bombacoideae

Bombacoideae
Cortex of juvenile Ceiba pentandra
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Embryophytes
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Spermatophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Malvales
Family:	Malvaceae
Subfamily:	Bombacoideae Burnett, 1835

Bombacoideae is a subfamily of the mallow family, Malvaceae. It contains herbaceous and woody plants. Their leaves are alternate, commonly palmately lobed, with small and caducous stipules. The flowers are hermaphroditic and actinomorphic; the calyx has 5 sepals united at the base, which are not accompanied by an epicalyx (involucel). The corolla has 5 free petals and an androecium of numerous stamens, typically with free filaments which are not fused in a staminal tube (column). The pollen is smooth and the ovary superior and pluricarpellate. The fruits are schizocarpous or capsular.

Genera

• Adansonia L. - baobabs
• Aguiaria Ducke
• Bernoullia Oliv.
• Bombax L.
• Camptostemon Mast.
• Catostemma Benth.
• Cavanillesia Ruiz & Pav.
• Ceiba Mill.
• Chiranthodendron Larreat.
• Eriotheca Schott & Endl.
• Fremontodendron Coville
• Gyranthera Pittier
• Huberodendron Ducke
• Lagunaria (DC.) Rchb.
• Matisia Humb. & Bonpl.
• Neobuchia Urb.
• Ochroma Sw.
• Pachira Aubl.
• Patinoa Cuatrec.
• Pentaplaris L.O.Williams & Standl.
• Phragmotheca Cuatrec.
• Pseudobombax Dugand
• Quararibea Aubl.
• Rhodognaphalon (Ulbr.) Roberty
• Scleronema Benth.
• Septotheca Ulbr.
• Spirotheca Ulbr.
• Uladendron Marc.-Berti

Classification

Some taxa in this subfamily were previously grouped under the now-obsolete family Bombacaceae, as recent phylogenetic research has shown that Bombacaceae as traditionally circumscribed (including tribe Durioneae) is not a monophyletic group. Camptostemon, Lagunaria, Pentaplaris and Uladendron might more appropriately be placed in Malvoideae, as might the tribe Matisieae (Matisia, Phragmotheca and Quararibea).

External links

• Media related to Bombacoideae at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Bombacoideae at Wikispecies