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Nymphaceae
- Aquatic plants with many stamens, grading from peltate staminodes to well-differentiated stamens with a syncarpic gynoecium.
Magnoliaceae
- Stipules surround terminal bud.
- Many pistils and stamens borne on an androgynophore.
Piperaceae
- Inflorescence is a spadix of very small bractete flowers with no perianth and no spathe.
Alliaceae
- Smell of alyl sulfates.
- Bulbous herbs with an umbellate inflo and a superior ovary.
Orchidaceae
- Abaxial petal highly modified.
- Pollen delivered in a polinium.
Liliaceae
- Bulbous, 3-merous herbs lacking an alyl sulfate odour, with actinomorphic flowers with nectar guides.
Melanthiaceae
- Bulbous 3-merous herbs lacking an alyl sulfate odour with nectaries fused to the base of the tepals.
Cyperaceae
- Graminoid morphology with a 3-sided, solid-pithed stem.
- Inflorescence is a spikelet with a rachilla bearing many bracts, each subtending a reduced flower.
Juncaceae
- Graminoid morphology with a solid-pithed stem which is round in cross-section and an evident, scarious perianth.
Poaceae
- Graminoid morphology with a round, hollow stem.
- Spikelet subtended by two glumes, with a palea and lemma subtending each floret.
Ranunculaceae
- 5-merous flowers with many stamens and no hypanthium, stipules or epicalyx.
Caryophyllaceae
- Fused calyx and free corolla.
- Simple, opposite leaves at swollen nodes.
Polygonaceae
- Simple alternate leaves at swollen nodes with an ocrea.
- Inflorescence an involucrate fasciculate unit.
Saxifragaceae
- Herbs with a terminal raceme borne on a long, naked peduncle; and alternate, estipulate leaves.
Salicaceae
- Dioecious trees with flowers in catkins or aments and subtended by a single, undivided bract.
Euphorbiaceae
Unisexual flowers with a tricarpellate ovary with one ovule per carpel, and milky latex.
Fabaceae
- Fruit is a legume.
- Pentamerous flowers with a single, unicarpelate ovary with marginal placentation.
- Phyllode present.
Rosaceae
5-merous flowers with many stamens, a hypanthium and stipules and (sometimes) an epicalyx.
Spiraeoideae
Rosaceae. Apocarpic and perigynous. Fruit is an aggregate of follicles.
Rosoideae
Rosaceae. Apocarpic and perigynous with an elongated receptacle. Fruit is an aggregate of drupes.
Prunoideae
Rosaceae. Monocarpic with a perigynous flower. Fruit is a drupe.
Pomoideae
Rosaceae. Syncapic with an epigynous flower. Fruit is a pome.
Betulaceae
Trees with unisexual flowers in catkins with a naked ovary, with each female flower subtended by a three-lobed bract.
Onagraceae
4-merous flowers with an inferior ovary with a four-lobed stigma and pollen grains connected by viscin threads.
Brassicaceae
4-4-6-2 arrangement of flower parts. Fruit is a silique. Stamens tetradynamous.
Sapindaceae
Flowers with a perianth of four-five evident sepals which are unisexual by abortion, and a seed which bears a fleshy aril or a dry wing.
Malvaceae
Plants with stellate trichomes, an epicalyx, a valvate calyx and many monodelphous stamens.
Cornaceae
Cymose inflo with showy, petaloid bracts and 4-merous flowers with an inferior, bicarpellate ovary and separate sepals, petals and anthers.
Ericaceae
Evergreen shrubs with coreaceous, revolute leaves and often urceolate flowers.
Primulaceae
Typical Asterid flowers with a unilocular ovary, free-central placentation and a basal rosette of leaves.
Gentianaceae
Typical Asterid flowers with opposite, estipulate leaves, parietal placentation and a capsular fruit.
Apocynaceae (Asclepiadoideae)
Flowers with a distinctive corona formed from a gynostegium and highly-modified petaloid anthers (hoods) with highly reflexed petals.
Apocynaceae (Apocynoideae)
Typical Asterid flowers with a 'bottle-brush' stigma and connivent stamens for pollen presentation, and a funnel-shaped, contorted corolla.
Rubiaceae
Opposite leaves with inter-petiolar stipules. Epigynous, typical Asterid, flowers.
Lamiaceae
Plants with distinctive volatile organic compounds, opposite leaves, square stems and bilabiate flowers clustered in axillary inflorescences with a gynobasic style.
Scrophulariaceae
Bilabiate flowers with a terminal style and a many-seeded capsular fruit.
Boraginaceae
Actinomorphic, typical Asterid flowers in a scrirpoid cyme with a gynobasic style.
Solanaceae
Alternate, trifoliate leaves with one lobe much larger than the others. Typical Asterid flowers with a axile placentation and an acrescent calyx.
Convulvaceae
Twining plants with alternate, cordate leaves and typical Asterid flowers which are funnel-shaped with a plicate corolla and unequal filaments.
Adoxaceae
Shrubs with opposite, compound leaves and small Asterid flowers in flat-topped cymes with short styles.
Caprifoliaceae
Opposite, simple-leaved plants with epigynous, often zygomorphic, long-styled Asterid flowers, swollen at the base, in cymose inflorescences.
Apiaceae
Epigynous, asterid flowers with no corolla tube in an involucrate, compound umbel with sheathing leaves. Stylopodium present.
Campanulaceae (Campanuloideae)
Actinomorphic, 5-merous bell-shaped flowers with a hypanthium, unfused stamens and milky latex.
Campanulaceae (Lobelioideae)
Zygomorphic, 5-merous bell-shaped flowers with a hypathium and a staminal tube with pollen presentation. Milky latex present.
Asteraceae
Distinctive capitulum inflorescence with subtending phyllaries and a calyx reduced to a pappus or absent.