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A PANTROPICAL FAMILY
OF FIVE SUBFAMILIES
Planchonioideae
58 species in six genera
Australasia
Napoleonaeoideae
11 species in two genera
West Africa
Scytopetaloideae
21 species in six genera
West Africa and Amazonian Brazil
Foetidioideae
17 species in one genus
Madagascar and East Africa
Lecythidoideae
Ca. 250 species in 10 genera
New World Tropics
THIS ESSAY DEALS ONLY WITH
THE LAST SUBFAMILY
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