Barringtoniaceae

=Family description=
 * Small** trees without exudate and hollow twigs.
 * Leaves** alternate, spiral, usually crowded at twig tips, simple, usually margin toothed. Stipules present, but strongly reduced and often not visible.
 * Flowers** often placed in vary long, dangling racemes, bisexual, stamens numerous, colourful and long, protruding far from actual flower, ovary inferior, 2-6-locular, with long slender style.
 * Fruit** large, woody drupes, with persistent calyx and style on top.

=General info=
 * Distribution** African and Asian tropics, but most common in Asia. Genera 5, with ca. 50 species.
 * Ecology** Often on swampy places in the forest understorey. Usually pollinated at night by bats or moths.
 * Uses** Timber.
 * Similar to** Anacardiaceae, but these differ in the black exudate and solid twigs. Sapotaceae, but these have white sap.

=Treated genera=
 * Barringtonia
 * Careya

Barringtoniaceae.pdf

Barringtonia macrostachya