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Oleaceae

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Part of the The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants book series (FAMILIES GENERA, volume 7)

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Trees, shrubs or woody climbers. Leaves opposite or rarely alternate (Jasminum sect. Alternifolia), simple, trifoliolate or imparipinnate, without stipules. Flowers regular, bisexual or unisexual (plants sometimes dioecious), sometimes with a nectar disk around base of the ovary. Calyx usually small, 4(-15)-lobed, lobes valvate, rarely calyx wanting (Fraxinus spp.). Corolla usually sympetalous, generally 4-lobed (to 12-lobed in Jasminum), imbricate, induplicate-valvate or convolute, rarely absent. Androecium of 2 stamens, rarely 4, attached to the corolla tube when sympetalous; anthers dithecal, longitudinally dehiscent, pollen grains tricolpate. Gynoecium of 2 united carpels forming a syncarpous, superior bilocular ovary, style terminal, stigma 2-lobed, dry, sometimes sessile; ovary usually with 2 ovules per loculus, sometimes 1–4, rarely numerous (Forsythia), anatropous or hemitropous, on axile placentas.

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Pollen Morphology Corolla Tube Diploid Number Corolla Lobe Arnold Arbor 
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