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Pellucid dots laurals1/27/2024 ![]() Stamens as many as or twice as many as the petals, free or rarely numerous and in phalanges, inserted at the base of a disk anthers 2-lobed at the base, sometimes with an apical gland staminodes well-developed or vestigial or absent ![]() Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx Inflorescences of panicles, racemes, cymose clusters or glomerules, terminal, axillary, or terminal and axillary, sometimes also on older leafless branchesįlowers (2–3) 4–5-merous, actinomorphic, bisexual or unisexual by abortion and dioecious Leaves simple or pinnate or (1) 3-foliolate lamina dotted with pellucid glands all over the surface or on the margin only Trees or shrubs, rarely suffrutices or perennial herbs, with odoriferous oil-glands, sometimes armed with prickles or spines Pantropical and extending north into Europe and Canada, and south into New Zealand and parts of Argentina and Chile.įound in tropical evergreen forest and in temperate regions in drier habitats. Acronychia (India to Australia)) often with a glandular-punctate outer layerġ61 genera and 2,070 species. Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruitsįruit variable, commonly hesperidiums (e.g. Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowersįlowers usually bisexual, 5-merous stamens 2–many, arranged in two whorls, often in a ring, filaments often thick and fleshy, sometimes flattened, connate at the base or not disk conspicuous, ovary superior, with (1–)4– 5(–many) locules Inflorescences various including cymes and panicles Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Leaves pinnately, bipinnately or palmately to trifoliolately compound, sometimes simple or unifoliolate alternate or opposite rachis with or without wings Trees, shrubs, lianas (occasionally herbs) thorns or spines sometimes present pellucid gland dots present, especially on leaves, flowers and fruit (sometimes appearing as pits or oily dots) Myrtaceae: leaves opposite and always simple, margins entire, ovary inferior, many stamens. Meliaceae: no gland dots, filaments fused into a distinctive ‘staminal tube’. Sapindaceae: no pellucid gland dots, filaments often hairy, free rachis tip in compound leaf. Burseraceae: no gland dots, flowers unisexual. Gland dots pellucid, found in various plant parts: leaves, flowers and fruit.Ĭharacters of similar families: Anacardiaceae: no gland dots, style excentric. Leaves often compound, alternate or opposite. Bark slash or crushed fresh material with rank citrus scent. Kew Publishing Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Note The Kew Tropical Plant Families Identification Handbook, Second Edition. Timothy Utteridge & Gemma Bramley (2020).
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