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Tropaeolaceae

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Book cover Flowering Plants · Dicotyledons

Part of the book series: The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants ((FAMILIES GENERA,volume 5))

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Annual or perennial herbs with odour of mustard oils, climbing or prostrate, often rhizomatous or tuberous. Leaves alternate, long-petiolate, digitately pinnate, parted or lobed, or almost entire, epeltate, subpeltate or peltate; stipules usually present, small and caducous or rarely foliaceous. Inflorescence racemose, elongate or condensedumbelliform; flowers perfect, zygomorphic, usually subtended by foliage leaves; prophylls rarely present; calyx almost always spurred, gamosepalous, 5-lobed, sometimes bilabiate and with unequal lobes, aestivation valvate or imbricate; petals 5, or 2 due to reduction of the lower ones, unequal, usually clawed, often lobed, dissected, or ciliate; stamens 8 in a single whorl; anthers tetrasporangiate, introrse, dehiscing by longitudinal slits; ovary superior, syncarpous, 3-locular; placentation axile; ovules solitary in each locule, anatropous, pendulous, epitropous, bitegmic, tenuinucellate; style apically divided into 3 stigmatic lobes. Fruit a schizocarp with indehiscent, sometimes fleshy mericarps or rarely a 3-winged samara, sessile or exceptionally on a distinct carpophore; seeds exalbuminous, embryo straight; germination hypogeal. A monogeneric family with ca. 90 species distributed from Mexico to Patagonia.

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Bayer, C., Appel, O. (2003). Tropaeolaceae. In: Kubitzki, K., Bayer, C. (eds) Flowering Plants · Dicotyledons. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, vol 5. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-07255-4_47

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