f) Ovules more than 1 in each ovary cell; ovary mostly 4-celled.
=Onagraceæ=
ff) Ovules 4 in a 1-celled ovary; flowers monœcious or polygamous,
not umbellate.
=Halorrhagaceæ=
fff) Ovules solitary in each cell; usually pendulous; flowers
umbellate; carpels separating in fruit into 2 indehiscent
mericarps.
=Umbelliferæ=
ee) Shrubs or trees:
f) Petals entire or at most toothed; ovary 1-celled.
=Combretaceæ=
ff) Petals entire, 2-lobed or laciniate, often involute; ovary
4-celled.
=Rhizophoraceæ=
=GROUP 14. One carpel or more than one united carpel; ovules attached to
the central axis or to the base or apex of the ovary cell; ovary
inferior; petals present, more or less united.=
a) Leave opposite:
b) Leaves stipulate, entire, stipules mostly inter- or intrapetiolar;
anthers free from each other; corolla always actinomorphic.
=Rubiaceæ=
bb) Leaves exstipulate:
c) Anthers free from each other; ovules mostly pendulous:
d) Leaves not gland-dotted; stamens definite; shrubs, mostly
parasitic on trees; flowers usually not in heads and not surrounded
by bracts.
=Loranthaceæ=
dd) Leaves gland-dotted; stamens mostly numerous; trees or shrubs;
flowers cymose or fasciculate.
=Myrtaceæ=
cc) Anthers mostly connivent or in pairs around the style:
d) Ovule solitary erect; flowers mostly in heads surrounded by an
involucre of bracts.
=Compositæ=
dd) Ovules numerous; flowers usually not in heads and not surrounded
by bracts.
=Campanulaceæ=
aa) Leaves alternate or radical:
b) Anthers free from one another:
c) Stamens the same number and opposite the corolla lobes:
d) Herbaceous, leaves not gland-dotted.
=Primulaceæ=
dd) Trees and shrubs:
e) Not parasitic; leaves often gland-dotted; corolla short.
=Myrsinaceæ=
ee) Often parasitic; leaves not gland-dotted; corolla often long.
=Loranthaceæ=
cc) Stamens alternate with the corolla lobes or more numerous or
fewer:
d) Flowers hermaphrodite; stems not climbing; anthers straight.
=Campanulaceæ=
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