刺茉莉科

Habit: tree, shrub

Important diagnostics: spiny stems or leaves

Taxon group: dicots

Leaf: position: opposite

Leaf: nature: simple

Leaf: blade: margin: entire

Leaf: stipules: present

Flowers: inflorescence: raceme, cyme, panicle

Flowers: sexuality: bisexual, polygamous

Flowers: symmetry: actinomorphic

Flowers: sepal number/calyx lobes: 2, 3, 4

Flowers: sepal/calyx nature: campanulate

Flowers: petal number/corolla lobes: 4, 5

Flowers: petal position: all free from one another, connate or basally connate

Flowers: petal nature: imbricate

Stamen: number: 4, 5

Stamen: filaments: free

Pistil: ovary: 1-loculed, 2-loculed

Pistil: ovule: 1 per locule, 2 per locule

Ovary: position: superior

Fruit: types and characters: fleshy (berry, drupe, pome)

Seed: endosperm: seeds without endosperm

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Dictionary of The Families & Genera of Chinese Seed Plants: Link

Vascular Plant Type Catalog at NYBG: Link