Octoknemaceae Soler

Family Description

Distribution Map

Octoknema

1. Octoknema affinis
   • Photos Southwestern Cameroon.  Link goes to Flora of the World website by Christopher Davidson and Sharon Christoph.
   • Fruiting specimen. Mt. Cameroon. Photo by Martin Cheek (Kew) [MC no. 3452]. July 1992.
   • Herbarium specimen, Specimen with fruits from Missouri Botanical Garden herbarium (MO). One of the fruits has a seed which, in transverse section, shows marked invaginations. Photo by D. L. Nickrent.
2. Octoknema borealis
   
   • Description. Link goes to PROTA.

Taxonomy

Gosline G, Malécot V. 2012. A monograph of Octoknema (Octoknemaceae - Olacaceae s.l.). Kew Bulletin 66: 367-404.

Phylogeny

Malécot, V. and Nickrent, D. L. 2008. Molecular phylogenetic relationships of Olacaceae and related Santalales. Systematic Botany 33: 97-106.  HERE.

Su H.-J., J.-M. Hu, F. E. Anderson and D. L. Nickrent. 2015.  Phylogenetic relationships of Santalales with insights into the origins of holoparasitic Balanophoraceae. Taxon 64(3): 491-506. HERE.

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