Cephalotaceae Dumortier

habit

herbaceous plants

distribution

Australian and Oceanian

leaf: position

alternate

leaf: nature

not compound

leaf: venation

pinnate or hardly visible in leaves or leaflets.

margin

with entire margin

leaf: stipules

absent

inflorescence

compound, sympodial or monopodial

flower: sexuality

bisexual

flower: symmetry

actinomorphic

flower: receptacle

enlarged, totally or partially free from the ovary

flower: disc

present

flower: perianth number

6

flower: perianth nature

perianth of similar segments

flower: sepal number

6+

flower: sepal position

all free from one another

flower: sepal nature

sepals valvate

flower: petal number

0

stamen: number

11+

stamen: anthers

basifixed, introrse, opening by longitudinal slits

stamen: filaments

free from the corolla, not connate

stamen: other characters

anthers with a conspicuous appendage

pistil: style

style 1, or styles more or less connate

pistil: carpel

6+

pistil: ovary

1-locular

pistil: ovule

1 in each loculus, 2 in each loculus

pistil

carpels free from each other or carpel 1, ovules attached to the central axis or ventrally in apocarpae, ovules attached to the base of the ovary

fruit: type

a capsule

fruit: seed

1 seed

seed: embryo

straight

seed: endosperm

seeds with endosperm

 

 

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