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八角枫科 ba jiao feng ke ALANGIACEAE Qin Haining (覃海宁 ) ; Chamlong Phengklai 1 2 Trees or shrubs, deciduous, sometimes spiny. Leaves alternate, simple, estipulate, bases often oblique. Flowers bisexual, actino- morphic, often bracteate, in axillary cymes. Calyx lobes 4–10, toothlike or obsolete. Petals as many as calyx lobes, valvate, linear to lorate, sometimes basally coherent. Stamens as many as petals or 2–4 × as many, distinct, arising from an enlarged disk; anthers 2- celled, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary inferior, commonly 1- or rarely 2-loculed; ovule solitary, pendulous; style and stigma simple, or 2- or 3-lobed. Fruit a drupe, crowned with persistent calyx and disk. Seeds 1 or 2, with straight embryo and copious endosperm. One genus and ca. 21 species: tropical and subtropical regions from Africa east to Australia and Fiji; 11 species (four endemic) in China. Alangiaceae are treated here as separate from the Cornaceae, into which they have sometimes been placed. See the discussion under Cornaceae in Fl. China (14: 206. 2005). Fang Wen-pei, Soong Tze-pu Su He-yi. 1983. Alangiaceae. In: Fang Wen-pei Chang Che-yung, eds., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 52(2): 160–179. ALANGIUM Lam八角ar枫ck属, Encycl. 1: 174. 1783, nom. cons. ba jiao feng shu Angolam Adanson; Kara-angolam Adanson; Marlea Roxburgh. Morphological characters and geographic distribution are the same as those of the family. 1a. Stamens not less than 10; leaf blade broadly ovate to cordate or orbicular, membranous to subleathery. 2a. Leaf blade broadly ovate to ovate, sometimes obovate .................................................................................. 8. A. premnifolium 2b. Leaf blade oblong, cordate, or orbicular 3a. Leaf blade oblong ....................................................................................................................................... 10. A. salviifolium 3b. Leaf blade cordate or orbicular .................................................................