Combretaceae R. Brown

habit

woody plants

important diagnostics

spiny stems or leaves

hairs

glandular, stellate, 2-armed or T-shaped, non-glandular, peltate or scale-like

distribution

African, Asian, Australian and Oceanian, North American, South American

leaf: position

opposite or verticillate, alternate

leaf: nature

not compound

leaf: venation

pinnate or hardly visible in leaves or leaflets.

margin

with entire margin

leaf: epidermis

epidermis of leaf papillose

leaf: glands/ligule

with pellucid or glandular dots or lines

leaf: stipules

absent

inflorescence

raceme, spike

flower: sexuality

bisexual, unisexual

flower: symmetry

actinomorphic, zygomorphic or irregular

flower: receptacle

enlarged, completely united with the ovary, totally or partially covering it, enlarged, totally or partially free from the ovary

flower: disc

absent, present

flower: perianth number

4, 5, 6, 7+

flower: perianth nature

perianth of similar segments, perianth of calyx and corolla

flower: sepal number

4, 5, 6+

flower: sepal position

all free from one another, connate

flower: sepal nature

sepals valvate

flower: petal number

0, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

flower: petal position

all free from one another, petals imbricate

flower: petal nature

petals valvate

stamen: number

4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11+

stamen: symmetry

flowers obdiplostemonous

stamen: anthers

dorsifixed or ventrifixed, introrse, extrorse, opening by longitudinal slits

stamen: filaments

free from the corolla, not connate

pistil: style

style 1, or styles more or less connate

pistil: carpel

1, 4, 5, 6+

pistil: ovary

1-locular

pistil: ovule

2 in each loculus, 3+ in each loculus

pistil

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

fruit: type

a capsule, a nut, fleshy

fruit: seed

1 seed

seed: cotyledons

folded or crumpled

seed: endosperm

seeds without endosperm

 

Related Objects

Flora of China   Combretaceae.pdf PDF

 

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