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Flowering Plants · Dicotyledons

Part of the book series: The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants ((FAMILIES GENERA,volume 6))

Abstract

Trees or shrubs (rhizomatous halfshrubs). Hairs simple, unicellular. Leaves alternate or opposite, simple, entire (dentate), exstipulate. Inflorescences many-flowered thyrso-panicles, heads, or few-flowered cymes; flowers hermaphrodite to unisexual, actinomorphic, epigynous, mostly 4- or 5-merous; calyx adnate to ovary with 4–5(–10) lobes or teeth or obsolete; petals free (basally connate), imbricate or valvate, reduced or lacking in pistillate flowers; stamens as many as and alternating with petals, or in 2 isomerous whorls (in 1 whorl of up to 40 stamens), mostly attached to or around the edge of an epigynous nectary disk (lacking in Davidia); filaments free; anthers bithecate, dehiscing longitudinally; pistil 1–2(–9)locular; style with lobed or capitate stigma, or with 2–3 style branches; ovary inferior, with 1 pendulous ovule per locule; ovules anatropous (hemitropous), unitegmic and crassinucellate (Nyssa and red-fruited Cornus tenuinucellate). Fruits drupes, often with a germination valve, 1(2–6)-seeded (syncarps); seeds small to medium-sized, exotestal, with straight embryo and copious endosperm.

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Kubitzki, K. (2004). Cornaceae. In: Kubitzki, K. (eds) Flowering Plants · Dicotyledons. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, vol 6. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-07257-8_10

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