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Barbeyaceae Rendle

habit
woody plants

important diagnostics
cystoliths present

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

distribution
African

leaf: position
opposite or verticillate

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: stipules
absent

inflorescence
simple, sympodial

flower: sexuality
unisexual

flower: symmetry
actinomorphic

flower: receptacle
small

flower: disc
absent

flower: perianth number
3, 4

flower: perianth nature
perianth of similar segments

flower: sepal number
3, 4

flower: sepal position
all free from one another

flower: sepal nature
sepals valvate

flower: petal number
0

stamen: number
6, 7, 8, 9

stamen: anthers
basifixed, 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

pistil: ovary
1-locular

pistil: ovule
1 in each loculus

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

fruit: type
a nut

fruit: seed
1 seed

seed: embryo
straight

seed: endosperm
seeds without endosperm


 

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