Dilleniaceae Salisbury

habit

woody plants, herbaceous plants

important diagnostics

cladodes or phyllodes

hairs

stellate, stellate, peltate or scale-like

distribution

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

leaf: position

opposite or verticillate, alternate

leaf: nature

not compound, compound, pinnately compound, ternately compound

leaf: venation

pinnate or hardly visible in leaves or leaflets.

margin

with entire margin, lobed or divided, dentate

leaf: glands/ligule

with pellucid or glandular dots or lines

leaf: stipules

absent, present

inflorescence

solitary, raceme, fascicle, simple, sympodial, compound, sympodial or monopodial

flower: sexuality

bisexual, unisexual

flower: symmetry

actinomorphic

flower: receptacle

small, enlarged, conical or hemispherical

flower: disc

absent

flower: perianth number

4, 5, 6, 7+

flower: perianth nature

perianth of calyx and corolla

flower: sepal number

3, 4, 5, 6+

flower: sepal position

all free from one another

flower: sepal nature

sepals imbricate or contorted

flower: petal number

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

flower: petal position

all free from one another, petals imbricate

stamen: number

3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11+

stamen: anthers

basifixed, introrse, opening by longitudinal slits, opening by apical pores

stamen: filaments

free from the corolla, not connate, connate into 1 tube or bundle, connate into separate bundles

stamen: other characters

staminodia present

pistil: style

styles more than 1, free, style 1, or styles more or less connate

pistil: carpel

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6+

pistil: ovary

1-locular, 5-locular, 6+ locules

pistil: ovule

1 in each loculus, 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 base of the ovary

fruit: type

a capsule, a nut, fleshy

fruit: seed

1 seed, 2 seeds, 3+ seeds

seed: aril

arillus or arill-like organs present

seed: embryo

straight

seed: endosperm

seeds with endosperm

 

Related Objects

Flora of China   Dilleniaceae.pdf PDF

 

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