Chrysobalanaceae

Chrysobalanaceae
Maranthes polyandra
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Malpighiales
Family:	Chrysobalanaceae R.Br.
Genera
Acioa Afrolicania Atuna Bafodeya Chrysobalanus Couepia Exellodendron Grangeria Hirtella Hunga Kostermanthus Licania Magnistipula Maranthes Neocarya Parastemon Parinari

Chrysobalanaceae is a family of trees, shrubs and flowering plants, consisting of 17 genera and about 460 species of leptocaul that grows in the Tropics or is subtropical and common in the Americas.^[1] Some of the species contain silica in their bodies for rigidity and so the mesophyll often has sclerencymatous idioblasts The flower produces a fruit and the plant is commonly known as a coco plum.

References

1. ^ Stephens, P.F. (2001 onwards). Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 9, June 2008. http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Research/APweb/