Elaeocarpaceae

=Family description=
 * Shrubs to trees** without resin.
 * Leaves** mostly alternate, usually crowded near twig tips, simple, with smooth to toothed margins, often with domatia on lower surface. Petiole usually thickened at base and tip. Stipules present.
 * Inflorescences** usually racemes.
 * Flowers** radially symmetric, usually bisexual, 5-merous, sepals free, valvate, petals free (except some //Sloanea//) and often fimbriate, stamens many, disk present, ovary superior, 2-5(-7) locular, style 1.
 * Fruits** oily drupes, but the central stone containing several seeds, each in its own cavity.

=General info=
 * Distribution** Mostly southern hemisphere, with most species in Asia and Australia. Nine genera with ca. 500 species.
 * Ecology** Mostly shrubs to small trees in closed forests and gaps.
 * Uses** Edible fruits, timber and some ornamental trees.
 * Similar to** Malvaceae (former Tiliaceae and Sterculiaceae) but these differ in anther connection (not basal), stellate hairs. //Irvingia// (Simaroubaceae) which differs in having stipules leaving a circular scar. Some Euphorbiaceae, like //Baccaurea//, but these differ by absence of toothed leaf margins.

=Treated genera=
 * Elaeocarpus
 * Sloanea

Elaeocarpus.pdf

Elaeocarpus hainanensis