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Eucryphiaceae Endlicher

habit
woody plants

distribution
Australian and Oceanian, South American

leaf: position
opposite or verticillate

leaf: nature
not compound, compound, pinnately compound

leaf: venation
pinnate or hardly visible in leaves or leaflets.

margin
dentate

leaf: stipules
present

inflorescence
solitary

flower: sexuality
bisexual

flower: symmetry
actinomorphic

flower: receptacle
enlarged, conical or hemispherical

flower: disc
present

flower: perianth number
7+

flower: perianth nature
perianth of calyx and corolla

flower: sepal number
4, 5

flower: sepal position
all free from one another

flower: sepal nature
sepals imbricate or contorted

flower: petal number
4, 5

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

stamen: number
11+

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

stamen: filaments
free from the corolla, not connate

pistil: style
styles more than 1, free

pistil: carpel
5, 6+

pistil: ovary
5-locular, 6+ locules

pistil: ovule
3+ in each loculus

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

fruit: type
a capsule

fruit: seed
3+ seeds

seed: embryo
straight

seed: endosperm
seeds with endosperm


 

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