柽柳科

Habit: tree, shrub

Important diagnostics: scale-like leaves

Taxon group: dicots

Leaf: position: alternate

Leaf: nature: simple

Leaf: blade: margin: entire

Leaf: stipules: absent

Flowers: inflorescence: solitary, raceme, panicle

Flowers: sexuality: bisexual

Flowers: symmetry: actinomorphic

Flowers: sepal number/calyx lobes: 4, 5

Flowers: petal number/corolla lobes: 4, 5

Stamen: number: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10+

Stamen: filaments: inserted on the corolla, free, connate into 1 tube or bundle

Pistil: style: styles more than 1

Pistil: ovary: 1-loculed

Pistil: ovule: 2 per locule, 3 per locule, 4+ per locule

Pistil: pistil: ovules parietal placentation

Ovary: position: superior

Fruit: types and characters: a capsule (incl. pod, follicle, etc.)

Fruit: seed: winged

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

Vascular Plant Type Catalog at NYBG: Link