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Cneoraceae Link

habit
woody plants

hairs
glandular, stellate, 2-armed or T-shaped, non-glandular

distribution
African, European

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
solitary, simple, sympodial

flower: sexuality
bisexual

flower: symmetry
actinomorphic

flower: receptacle
enlarged, conical or hemispherical

flower: disc
absent

flower: perianth number
6, 7+

flower: perianth nature
perianth of calyx and corolla

flower: sepal number
3, 4

flower: sepal position
all free from one another, connate

flower: sepal nature
sepals imbricate or contorted, sepals valvate

flower: petal number
3, 4

flower: petal position
all free from one another, petals imbricate

stamen: number
3, 4

stamen: anthers
dorsifixed or ventrifixed, introrse, extrorse, opening by longitudinal slits, opening by apical pores

stamen: filaments
free from the corolla, not connate

pistil: style
style 1, or styles more or less connate

pistil: carpel
3, 4

pistil: ovary
3-locular, 4-locular

pistil: ovule
1 in each loculus, 2 in each loculus

pistil
ovules axile, carpels connate, ovules attached to the central axis or ventrally in apocarpae, ovules attached to the apex of the ovary

fruit: type
fleshy

fruit: seed
3+ seeds

seed: embryo
curved

seed: endosperm
seeds with endosperm


 

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