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Common name: Emblingia Family.
Number of genera 1. Number of species 1 (Emblingia calecolifora F. Muell.).
Angiosperm. Magnoliopsida.
Disseminule an intact or entire fruit.
Fruits
Pistil(s) 1; 1-pistillate. Fruit without persistent central column; within accessory organ(s); within calyx (subtending); soft calyx (soft); without sterile carpels; apex not beaked; wall chartaceous, or leathery (probably one of these answers); indehiscent (according to literature). Epicarp durable; not glabrous (with hairs); hairs not glandular; without armature; with wing(s); without apical respiratory hole. Endocarp present; not separating from exocarp; thin; not splitting into 1-seeded pyrenes; smooth; without wing; without operculum; without secretory cavities; without mechanism for seedling escape; without grooves; without longitudinal ridges. Funiculus short; short without seed bearing hooks (retinacula); persisting in fruit after seed shed.
Seeds
Aril present (Mueller, 1861, for arillate seed illustration); a true aril; fleshy; of funicular origin; marginal; fimbriate-laciniate (fingerlike projections). Seed circular (more or less); in transection compressed; not bowl shaped; not nutlike; without winglike beak; without caudate appendage(s); at maturity with food reserves; with endosperm; without canavanine. Sarcotesta absent. Testa absent; adhering to epicarp; without embryo surrounded and capped by viscid tissue. Endosperm scant; smooth; without fatty acid containing cyclopropene; without apical lobes; without chlorophyll; without isodiametric faceted surface; without odor.
Embryo differentiated from food reserve; well developed; 1 per seed; nearly filling testa (trace or scanty food reserve); 3 times the length of food reserve (estimated); at one end of seed not extending into a depression or cup; axile and centric; linear; flatly coiled (circinate); without coleorhiza; without simmondsin; without stomata; not green; with 2 or more cotyledons. Cotyledons 2; moderately developed; 0.8 times length of embryo; as wide as hypocotyl-radicle; not concealing hypocotyl-radicle; not foliaceous; controtiplicate; smooth; with apices entire; with margins separate; basally entire; equal in size; not punctate dotted. Hypocotyl-radicle moderately developed; curved; not thickened.
Distribution
Old World. Australia.
Notes
Spjut did not cover this family. Airy Shaw: Fruit dry, indehiscent, pendulous within the calyx from the apex of the androgynophore, thin pericarp adherent to seed. Mueller (1861): Fruit drupaceous, pericarp thin.. Calyx winged.
Weed information
No USA noxious weeds.
Listed seeds
No ASOA or ISTA listed seeds.
Accepted genera
Emblingia F. Muell.
References specific to this family
Cronquist page 778 (Cronquist & Mabberley have in Polygalaceae). Mueller, F. 1861. Fragmenta phytographie Australiae 2:1–4 & plate 11.
General references
Airy Shaw, H.K. 1973. A dictionary of the flowering plants and ferns, 1,131 pp. University Press, Cambridge, Engler, A. and K. Prantl. 1924 and onward. Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilimien. W. Engelman, Leipzig, Gunn, C.R., J.H. Wiersema, C.A. Ritchie, and J.H. Kirkbride, Jr. 1992 and amendments. Families and genera of Spermatophytes recognized by the Agricultural Research Service. Techn. Bull. U.S.D.A. 1796:1–500, Mabberley, D.J. 1987. The plant-book, 706 p. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Illustrations
No fruit and acceptable seed illustrations. Disseminule illustration(s): seed, or embryo. Seed illustration(s): Mueller (1860–1) [& copied by Engler & Prantl]. Embryo illustration(s): Mueller (1860–1) [& copied by Engler & Prantl].
• Embryo. 1 of 1. Emblingia calceoliflora F. Muell.: embryo.
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Cite this publication as: ‘J.H. Kirkbride, Jr., C.R. Gunn, and M.J. Dallwitz. 2000 onwards. Family guide for fruits and seeds: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval. Version: 12th April 2021. delta-intkey.com’.
