Version March 2006
The key is based on information from the publications cited below,
with additional information from herbarium specimens at K.
This is a preliminary effort which is currently being checked for errors and ommisions.
Feedback is welcome.
The family has between 28-36 genera. Pantropical Sauvagesia has several segregate
genera especially in the neotropics, these are keyed separately.
All paleotropical Ouratea are here treated as Gomphia, some of the African segregates of
which look distinctive and are also keyed separately.
Introduction
References
Amaral MCE (1990) Die Gattungsgliederung der Ochnaceae DC mit besonderem Hinblick
auf die Unterfamilie Sauvagesioideae Lindl. PhD thesis, University of Hamburg
Amaral MCE (1991) EJ 113: 105-196
Kanis A (1968) "A revision of the Ochnaceae of the Indo-Pacific area" Blumea 16. Leiden, Holland
Robson NKB (1962) Bull. Soc. Brot. II 36, 12
Robson NKB (1963) "Ochnaceae" in Exell, Fernandes and Wild (eds.) Flora Zambesiaca 2:1 224-262
Crown Agents, London
Verdcourt B (2005) "Ochnaceae" in Beentje & Ghazanfar (eds.)
Flora of Tropical East Africa, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
