Pentaphylacaceae
Botanical name: Pentaphylacaceae
Pentaphylacaceae
Botanical name: Pentaphylacaceae
Species of Pentaphylacaceae
Adinandra
Ternstroemia
Ternstroemia are tropical and subtropical evergreen shrubs and small trees. Though not of particular commercial or culinary importance, a few species are planted ornamentally, being prized for their handsome, waxy leaves and showy flowers – Japanese Clyera (T. gymnathera) is the most notable among these. Ternstroemia seeds are also a food source for birds.
Eurya
Eurya is a genus of about 70 species of flowering plants in the family Pentaphylacaceae.
pentaphylax
Pentaphylax is a genus of flowering plants, with one or two species which are shrubs and small trees. The species has simple evergreen leaves that are alternately arranged on the stems. The flower pistil is 5 celled and the anthers dehiscing via pores and basifixed. Flowers have five petals and five sepals that are distinct from each other and five stamens attached oppositely to the sepals. The seeds are winged.
Euryodendron
Euryodendron currently contains a single species. It is endemic to China.
Cleyera
Cleyera is a plant genus consisting of 18 species of tender, evergreen shrubs to small trees, mostly native to Mexico and Central America, and one from Eastern Asia. Though they are slow-growing, they can eventually reach 1.8 to 3 m. Leaves are glossy, oval-shaped, 6 to 10 cm long with dark-green and bronze-red to burgundy tinted young leaves. Very fragrant small creamy white to pale yellow flowers bloom in early summer with petals free or scarcely coalesced. Fruits are spherical, greenish yellow, turning red to black.
Anneslea
Scientific Classification
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