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Families of Angiosperms by Bertel Hansen & Knud Rahn         Search

Hansen, B. & K. Rahn. 1969. Determination of angiosperm families by means of a punched card system. Dansk Botanisk Arkiv 26.

1: habit [Unordered List]

• 1. woody plants   (332 taxa)
• 2. herbaceous plants   (231 taxa)

• 1. aquatic plants, leaves floating or submerged   (41 taxa)
• 2. chlorophyll absent   (14 taxa)
• 3. bulb present   (4 taxa)
• 4. milky juice present   (34 taxa)
• 5. spiny stems or leaves   (89 taxa)
• 6. tendrils present   (19 taxa)
• 7. cladodes or phyllodes   (15 taxa)
• 8. cystoliths present   (22 taxa)

• 1. glandular   (159 taxa)
• 2. stellate   (139 taxa)
• 3. stellate   (72 taxa)
• 4. 2-armed or T-shaped, non-glandular   (54 taxa)
• 5. branched   (52 taxa)
• 6. tufted, non-glandular   (54 taxa)
• 7. peltate or scale-like   (82 taxa)
• 8. vescicular or bladder-like   (11 taxa)
• 9. stinging   (4 taxa)

• 1. opposite or verticillate   (188 taxa)
• 2. alternate   (343 taxa)
• 3. distichous   (34 taxa)
• 4. ensiform   (9 taxa)

• 1. not compound   (389 taxa)
• 2. compound   (90 taxa)
• 3. pinnately compound   (62 taxa)
• 4. ternately compound   (40 taxa)
• 5. palmately compound   (29 taxa)

• 1. pinnate or hardly visible in leaves or leaflets.   (369 taxa)
• 2. invisible or leaves 1-nerved   (29 taxa)
• 3. longitudinal in leaves or leaflets   (88 taxa)
• 4. palmate in leaves or leaflets   (78 taxa)

• 1. with entire margin   (357 taxa)
• 2. lobed or divided   (117 taxa)
• 3. dentate   (196 taxa)

• 1. epidermis of leaf papillose   (122 taxa)

• 1. with pellucid or glandular dots or lines   (86 taxa)
• 2. with a ligule   (8 taxa)

• 1. absent   (351 taxa)
• 2. present   (149 taxa)

• 1. solitary   (201 taxa)
• 2. raceme   (195 taxa)
• 3. spike   (124 taxa)
• 4. corymb   (33 taxa)
• 5. umbel   (62 taxa)
• 6. fascicle   (58 taxa)
• 7. head   (72 taxa)
• 8. simple, sympodial   (141 taxa)
• 9. compound, sympodial or monopodial   (205 taxa)

• 1. bisexual   (359 taxa)
• 2. unisexual   (200 taxa)

• 1. actinomorphic   (380 taxa)
• 2. zygomorphic or irregular   (127 taxa)

• 1. small   (307 taxa)
• 2. enlarged, completely united with the ovary, totally or partially covering it   (126 taxa)
• 3. enlarged, totally or partially free from the ovary   (81 taxa)
• 4. enlarged, conical or hemispherical   (42 taxa)

• 1. absent   (330 taxa)
• 2. present   (161 taxa)

• 1. 0   (69 taxa)
• 2. 1   (13 taxa)
• 3. 2   (29 taxa)
• 4. 3   (78 taxa)
• 5. 4   (126 taxa)
• 6. 5   (118 taxa)
• 7. 6   (155 taxa)
• 8. 7+   (292 taxa)

• 1. perianth of similar segments   (190 taxa)
• 2. perianth of calyx and corolla   (300 taxa)

• 1. 0   (128 taxa)
• 2. 1   (18 taxa)
• 3. 2   (61 taxa)
• 4. 3   (142 taxa)
• 5. 4   (205 taxa)
• 6. 5   (278 taxa)
• 7. 6+   (136 taxa)

• 1. all free from one another   (317 taxa)
• 2. connate   (209 taxa)

• 1. sepals imbricate or contorted   (284 taxa)
• 2. sepals valvate   (166 taxa)

• 1. 0   (174 taxa)
• 2. 1   (13 taxa)
• 3. 2   (24 taxa)
• 4. 3   (92 taxa)
• 5. 4   (158 taxa)
• 6. 5   (246 taxa)
• 7. 6   (129 taxa)
• 8. 7   (69 taxa)
• 9. 8   (67 taxa)
• 10. 9   (41 taxa)
• 11. 10   (40 taxa)
• 12. 11+   (39 taxa)

• 1. all free from one another   (251 taxa)
• 2. petals connate   (183 taxa)
• 3. petals imbricate   (256 taxa)

• 1. petals contorted   (79 taxa)
• 2. petals valvate   (93 taxa)

• 1. present, or scales in the throat   (22 taxa)

• 1. 1   (63 taxa)
• 2. 2   (81 taxa)
• 3. 3   (115 taxa)
• 4. 4   (182 taxa)
• 5. 5   (216 taxa)
• 6. 6   (166 taxa)
• 7. 7   (91 taxa)
• 8. 8   (138 taxa)
• 9. 9   (92 taxa)
• 10. 10   (141 taxa)
• 11. 11+   (159 taxa)

• 1. the same number as and opposite the petals or alternate with the sepals   (75 taxa)
• 2. flowers obdiplostemonous   (28 taxa)

• 1. dorsifixed or ventrifixed   (192 taxa)
• 2. basifixed   (340 taxa)
• 3. introrse   (352 taxa)
• 4. extrorse   (199 taxa)
• 5. opening by longitudinal slits   (389 taxa)
• 6. opening by apical pores   (58 taxa)
• 7. opening by valves   (17 taxa)
• 8. 1-locular at anthesis   (43 taxa)

• 1. free from the corolla   (323 taxa)
• 2. inserted on the corolla   (137 taxa)
• 3. not connate   (389 taxa)
• 4. connate into 1 tube or bundle   (121 taxa)
• 5. connate into separate bundles   (37 taxa)

• 1. anthers with a conspicuous appendage   (53 taxa)
• 2. pollen coherent into pollinia or wax-like masses   (4 taxa)
• 3. staminodia present   (114 taxa)

• 1. present   (52 taxa)

• 1. styles absent, stigmas sessile   (149 taxa)
• 2. styles more than 1, free   (123 taxa)
• 3. style 1, or styles more or less connate   (350 taxa)
• 4. style gynobasic   (19 taxa)

• 1. 1   (79 taxa)
• 2. 2   (207 taxa)
• 3. 3   (233 taxa)
• 4. 4   (155 taxa)
• 5. 5   (154 taxa)
• 6. 6+   (106 taxa)

• 1. 1-locular   (276 taxa)
• 2. 2-locular   (159 taxa)
• 3. 3-locular   (169 taxa)
• 4. 4-locular   (112 taxa)
• 5. 5-locular   (104 taxa)
• 6. 6+ locules   (74 taxa)

• 1. 1 in each loculus   (235 taxa)
• 2. 2 in each loculus   (180 taxa)
• 3. 3+ in each loculus   (253 taxa)

• 1. carpels free from each other or carpel 1   (128 taxa)
• 2. ovules parietal, carpels connate   (93 taxa)
• 3. ovules axile, carpels connate   (311 taxa)
• 4. ovules attached to the central axis or ventrally in apocarpae   (342 taxa)
• 5. ovules attached to the apex of the ovary   (135 taxa)
• 6. ovules attached to the base of the ovary   (132 taxa)

• 1. a capsule   (246 taxa)
• 2. a nut   (158 taxa)
• 3. fleshy   (218 taxa)

• 1. 1 seed   (221 taxa)
• 2. 2 seeds   (147 taxa)
• 3. 3+ seeds   (299 taxa)

• 1. arillus or arill-like organs present   (64 taxa)

• 1. straight   (359 taxa)
• 2. curved   (120 taxa)

• 1. folded or crumpled   (44 taxa)

• 1. seeds without endosperm   (175 taxa)
• 2. seeds with endosperm   (317 taxa)
• 3. endosperm ruminate   (25 taxa)

• 1. African   (274 taxa)
• 2. Asian   (307 taxa)
• 3. Australian and Oceanian   (227 taxa)
• 4. European   (159 taxa)
• 5. North American   (251 taxa)
• 6. South American   (272 taxa)

Groups

• 1: General
• 2: Leaves
• 3: Flowers
• 4: Stamen
• 5: Pistil
• 6: Fruit/Seed