Elaeocarpus

Elaeocarpus
Elaeocarpus hainanensis flowers
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Oxalidales
Family: Elaeocarpaceae
Genus: Elaeocarpus
L.[1]
Type species
Elaeocarpus serratus
Species

See List of Elaeocarpus species

Synonyms
List

Elaeocarpus is a genus of nearly five hundred species of flowering plants in the family Elaeocarpaceae native to the Western Indian Ocean, Tropical and Subtropical Asia, and the Pacific. Plants in the genus Elaeocarpus are trees or shrubs with simple leaves, flowers with four or five petals usually, and usually blue fruit.

Elaeocarpus sylvestris fruits
Elaeocarpus dentatus foliage
Elaeocarpus grandiflorus flowers, at Munnar
Elaeocarpus tuberculatus
Pulvina at both ends of the petiole. Elaeocarpus multiflorus
  1. ^ "Elaeocarpus L." International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 5 February 2021.