Rapateaceae

Arecaceae 139.8 0.4489 94800 0.622 Rapateaceae 33.6 0.1079 23040 0.151 Moraceae 10.8 0.0347 12020 0.079 Melastomataceae 22.8 0.0732 5180 0.034 Rubiaceae 18.6 0.0597 4670 0.031 Euphorbiaceae 15.9 0.0511 2480 0.016 Fabaceae 13.5 0.0434 2490 0.016 Maranthaceae 8.5 0.0273 1450 0.010 Myristicaceae 4 0.0128 640 0.004 Total de especies 407 1.000 152350 1.000 FAMILIA Cob.

Sepals and petals are contort in Bromeliaceae (Eichler, 1875; Smith & Till, 1998) and Rapateaceae (Pilger, 1930).

The total alignment of the 121 Tillandsioideae and 12 sequences outgroups (2 Bromelioideae, 8 Pitcairnioideae and 2 Rapateaceae) has produced a matrix of 5910 characters of which 5098 not informative.

30 Dec 1999.--Type: Rapatea Aubl.; Rapateaceae Dumort., 1829.

He also found a surprising lack of aluminum hyperaccumulators in the monocotyledons, exceptions being members of the Rapateaceae and Aletris (Liliaceae).

Rapateaceae were recorded as secretory by Dahlgren et al.

However, judging from the illustrations, this tissue is not a typical thick-walled hypostase (although it is adjacent to the antipodals), but an enlarged thin-walled region of the nucellus, possibly with a storage function, as in, e.g., Dasypogonaceae and Rapateaceae (see perisperm below).