Combretaceae

=Family description=
 * Shrubs, climbers and trees**, the trees sometimes with horizontal branching (//Terminalia//).
 * Leaves** alternate to opposite, often crowded at twig tips, spiral, simple, untoothed, usually with fine translucent dots in leaf blade, often glands at leaf base or on petiole.
 * Flower** usually small, in branched or unbranched spike like clusters, calyx 4-5 lobed, petals (when present) 4-5, free, stamens usually twice as many as petals, disk usually present, ovary inferior, 1-locular, 1 free style.
 * Fruit** usually 1-seeded, winged.

=General info=
 * Distribution** Pantropical, mostly woody climbers, 500 species.
 * Ecology** Usually in open habitat types. Some fruits are dispersed by water and bats (//Terminalia//), many others by wind.
 * Uses** Timber, ornamentals, shade trees.

=Treated genera=
 * Anogeissus
 * Combretum
 * Terminalia

[|Combretaceae.pdf] Anogeissus leiocarpa

Combretum sp

Terminalia foetidissima