bb) Stamens as many as or up to twice as many as the corolla lobes or
fewer:
c) Stamens as many as or more numerous than the corolla lobes:
d) Flowers zygomorphic (irregular):
e) Petals united only at the base; seeds often pilose; ovules
pendulous.
=Polygalaceæ=
ee) Petals united high up into a tube:
f) Ovules numerous in each cell; herbs; corolla lobes 5.
=Solanaceæ=
ff) Ovules solitary in each complete or incomplete cell; habit
various; corolla lobes 4.
=Verbenaceæ=
dd) Flowers actinomorphic (regular):
e) Leaves opposite or verticillate, mostly exstipulate:
f) Anthers opening by apical pores or pore-like slits:
g) Leaves in whorls; woody shrubs or undershrubs with usually
very small leaves; stamens hypogynous.
=Ericaceæ=
gg) Leaves paired; herbs; stamens epipetalous.
=Gentianaceæ=
ff) Anthers opening by longitudinal slits:
g) Style single with often a large more or less capitate stigma:
h) Corona present in the flowers; mostly herbs or weak twiners,
often with milky juice.
=Asclepiadaceæ=
hh) Corona absent:
i) Leaves exstipulate:
j) Trees, shrubs or climbers often with milky juice; corolla
lobes contorted-imbricate or rarely valvate.
=Apocynaceæ=
jj) Herbs; corolla lobes imbricate; disk present.
=Scrophulariaceæ=
jjj) Herbs with spicate flowers and radical leaves; corolla
lobes imbricate; no disk.
=Plantaginaceæ=
ii) Leaves stipulate or sheathing at the base.
=Loganiaceæ=
gg) Styles with more than 1 separate stigma:
h) Stamens double the number of the corolla lobes; flowers
dioecious; endosperm copious, hard.
=Ebenaceæ=
hh) Stamens the same number as the corolla lobes:
i) Rudimentary stipules often present; stamens and corolla
lobes 4.
=Salvadoraceæ=
ii) Stipules absent:
j) Style gynobasic:
=Boraginaceæ=
jj) Style terminal:
k) Trees or shrubs:
l) Ovules numerous in each cell or, if solitary, then
corolla lobes valvate.
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