-
Bombacaceae were long
recognised as a
family of
flowering plants or Angio****e. The
family name was
based on the type
genus Bombax. As is true for many...
- from the
fruit of the
kapok tree
Ceiba pentandra in the
bombax family Bombacaceae.
Kapok is a
fibrous material classified along with cotton, as
plant hairs...
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order Malvales. The
subfamily Bombacoideae was
previously treated as the
Bombacaceae family but it is no
longer recognized at the rank of
family by the Angiosperm...
-
basis that
genetics studies have
shown the
commonly recognised families Bombacaceae, Tiliaceae, and Sterculiaceae,
which have
always been
considered closely...
- by some
taxonomists in the
family Bombacaceae, or by
others in a
broadly defined Malvaceae that
includes Bombacaceae, and by
others in a
smaller family...
-
boundaries and cir****scriptions of the "core"
Malvales families, Malvaceae,
Bombacaceae, Tiliaceae, and Sterculiaceae, have long been problematic. A
close relationship...
- JF (1998). "Biogeography and
floral evolution of
baobabs (Adansonia,
Bombacaceae) as
inferred from
multiple data sets".
Systematic Biology. 47 (2): 181–207...
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Bombacoideae of the
family Malvaceae.
Previously the
genus was ****igned to
Bombacaceae.
Prior to that the
genus was
found in the (now obsolete) Sterculiaceae...
-
fruit must not be
eaten with brandy. In 1981, J. R.
Croft wrote in his
Bombacaceae: In
Handbooks of the
Flora of
Papua New
Guinea that "a
feeling of morbidity"...
- from
flood damage. The
tallest buttresses are
those of
Huberodendron (
Bombacaceae) of the
Amazon basin which extend up to 70 ft (21 m) up a tree about...
