Barbeuiaceae (H. Walter) Nakai

habit

woody plants

important diagnostics

cladodes or phyllodes

distribution

African

leaf: position

alternate

leaf: nature

not compound

leaf: venation

pinnate or hardly visible in leaves or leaflets.

margin

with entire margin

leaf: glands/ligule

with pellucid or glandular dots or lines

leaf: stipules

absent

inflorescence

raceme

flower: sexuality

bisexual

flower: symmetry

actinomorphic

flower: receptacle

small

flower: disc

present

flower: perianth number

5

flower: perianth nature

perianth of similar segments

flower: sepal number

5

flower: sepal position

all free from one another

flower: sepal nature

sepals imbricate or contorted

flower: petal number

0

stamen: number

11+

stamen: anthers

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

stamen: filaments

free from the corolla, not connate

pistil: style

styles absent, stigmas sessile

pistil: carpel

2

pistil: ovary

2-locular

pistil: ovule

1 in each loculus

pistil

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

fruit: seed

2 seeds

seed: aril

arillus or arill-like organs present

seed: embryo

curved

seed: endosperm

seeds with endosperm

 

 

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