The flowering plants of Africa: An analytical key to the genera of African phanerogramsThonner, Franz
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The flowering plants of Africa: An analytical key to the genera of African phanerograms
Thonner, Franz
Angiosperms -- Africa; Plants -- Africa
507. (481.) Ovules solitary in each ovary-cell. 508
Ovules two or more in each ovary-cell. 527
508. Ovules erect or ascending. 509
Ovules pendulous or descending. 513
509. Stamens 10 or more. Sepals 5. Petals 5. Ovary 4-10-celled. Styles
or style-branches 2-10. Shrubs or trees. Leaves stipulate. =103.
Rosaceae.=
Stamens 2-5. 510
510. Flowers 2-merous. Herbs. Leaves opposite, exstipulate. _Circaea_,
=182. Oenotheraceae=.
Flowers 4-5-merous. 511
511. Stamens, at least apparently (by coalescence), fewer than the
petals, 3. Sepals 5. Petals 5. Ovary-cells and stigmas 3. Flowers
unisexual. Tendril-bearing herbs. Leaves alternate. _Cayaponia_, =223.
Cucurbitaceae=.
Stamens as many as the petals, 4-5. Shrubs or trees, rarely
undershrubs. 512
512. Stamens alternating with the petals. Calyx with imbricate or open
aestivation. =129. Celastraceae.=
Stamens opposite the petals. Calyx with valvate aestivation. =137.
Rhamnaceae.=
513. (508.) Ovary 2-celled. 514
Ovary 3-15-celled. 522
514. Style 1, with a single stigma. Flowers 4-merous. 515
Style 1, with 2-3 stigmas, or styles 2. 517
515. Stamens numerous. Flowers hermaphrodite, in cymes. Fruit a berry.
Seeds exalbuminous. Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite. _Pimenta_, =180.
Myrtaceae=.
Stamens 4. 516
516. Flowers unisexual, in cymes. Fruit a drupe. Seeds albuminous.
Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite. _Cornus_, =187. Cornaceae=.
Flowers hermaphrodite, solitary. Fruit a nut. Seeds exalbuminous.
Herbs. Leaves radical. _Trapa_, =182. Oenotheraceae=.
517. Stamens numerous. Petals 5. Stigmas 3. Seeds exalbuminous. Leaves
alternate. _Kissenia_, =164. Loasaceae=.
Stamens as many as the petals. Stigmas 2. Seeds albuminous. 518
518. Fruit a capsule, rarely a nut, and then ovary half-inferior.
Trees, shrubs, or undershrubs. Leaves simple, undivided. Flowers in
heads or head-like spikes, rarely in racemes or panicles. 519
Fruit a schizocarp (splitting into 2 nutlets), a nut, or a drupe. Ovary
inferior, rarely half-inferior, but then leaves compound or divided.
Flowers in umbels, more rarely in heads, whorls, spikes, racemes, or
panicles. 520
519. Leaves stipulate. Flowers usually 4-merous. Styles 2, free. Fruit
a capsule. Albumen scanty. =101. Hamamelidaceae.=
Leaves exstipulate, rarely stipulate, but then style 1. Flowers
5-merous. Petals clawed, imbricate in bud. Anthers opening by
longitudinal slits. Albumen abundant. =100. Bruniaceae.=
520. Fruit a schizocarp splitting into two nutlets, rarely a nut,
and then, as usually, stem herbaceous or woody at the base only.
Flowers 5-merous. Epigynous disc usually 2-parted. Styles free. =186.
Umbelliferae.=
Fruit a drupe or a nut. Stem woody throughout. Epigynous disc usually
entire. 521
521. Leaves compound or more or less deeply divided. Flowers in umbels,
spikes, or racemes. Ovules with ventral raphe. =185. Araliaceae.=
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