1. KIGGELARIACEAE 28 genera, 144 species; pantropical, including Queensland of Australia. Trees or shrubs, sometimes thorny, often with cyanogenic glycosides. Leaves alternate, simple, entire or toothed (but teeth not of salicoid type), pinnately veined or 3-veined from the base. Stipules present or absent. Flowers unisexual or bisexual. Perianth acyclic (sepals and petals spirally arranged and ±indistinguishable) to cyclic, the petals then sometimes more numerous than the sepals. Petals sometimes with an adnate adaxial scale (Erythrospermeae, Kiggelarieae).

2. KIGGELARIACEAE --- cont. Stamens 5-numerous, anthers often linear, sometimes dehiscing poricidally, initiation (where studied) centripital or simultaneous. Ovary superior, unilocular with parietal placentae. Fruit a berry, indehiscent berry (rarely woody), or capsule.

3. TRIBES OF KIGGELARIACEAE Kiggelarieae (=Pangieae): 11 genera, SE Mexico, Queensland, tropical Asia, and South Africa. Oncobeae (including Lindackerieae): 12 genera, tropical Africa, Madagascar, tropical America. Erythrospermeae: 5 genera, tropical Africa and Asia

4. Oncobeae (Warburg, 1893)

5. Kiggelarieae

6. Oncobeae Caloncoba (Gilg, 1925)

7. SELECTED LITERATURE Bernhard, A. and P.K. Endress. 1999. Androecial development and systematics in Flacourtiaceae s.l. Pl. Syst. Evol. 215:141-155. Chase, M.W. et al. [in press.] When in doubt, put it in Flacourtiaceae: a molecular phylogenetic analysis based on plastid rbcL DNA sequences. Kew Bulletin. Gavrilova, O.A. 1998. Palynomorphology of the family Kiggelariaceae. Bot. Zhurn. 83:20-27. [in Russian] Gilg, E. 1925. Flacourtiaceae. Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. Spencer, K.C. and D.S. Seigler. 1985. Cyanogenic glycosides and the systematics of the Flacourtiaceae. Biochem. Syst. Ecol. 13:421-431. von Warburg, O. 1893. Flacourtiaceae. Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien. Leipzig: Engelmann.