Abstract
We present the first extensive study of embryology of Akania,the only genus of Akaniaceae (one of the 15 glucosinolate-producing families). Akaniahas a distinctive combination of embryological features, which includes bitegmic and crassinucellate ovules; thick, multiplicative and vascularized outer integument; a Polygonum-type embryo sac; albuminous seed; ‘exotestal’ seed coat with a palisade of columellar, thick-walled cells and a thick and sclerotic mesotesta with the inner tissue aerenchymatous. A comparison of its embryological characteristics with those of some other groups indicates that Akaniaclosely resembles Bretschneideraceae (another glucosinolate-producing family) and Sapindaceae, but it retains some archaic embryological features and is best treated as a separate family in or near Sapindales, as in most modern general classifications. Based on evidence from embryological and other data, Akaniaceae appear to be the sister group of Bretschneideraceae, possibly near to Sapindales. With the data at hand, we cannot fully assess the recent suggestion that Akaniaceae-Bretschneideraceae are a basal group in Capparales.
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