Botany
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Flowering Plant Identification
Flowering Plant Identification
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Botany
122:
Flowering Plant Identification |
| Glossary |
Hydrophyllaceae: Waterleaf Family |
| Family: | Hydrophyllaceae: Waterleaf Family |
| 20/300 14/130 pg. 683 | |
| Habit | Herbaceous to suffrutescent |
| Stem: | various |
| Leaves: | various, often hairy |
| Inflorescence: | Scorpioid |
| Flower: | 5-merous |
| Perianth: | 5-merous |
| Calyx: | 5 sepals |
| Corolla: | 5 petals, connate |
| Hypanthium: | Ø |
| Androecium: | 5 stamens, epipetalous |
| Gynoecium: | Syncarpous 2 |
| Ovary position: | Superior |
| Stigma: | {stigma_edit} |
| Style: | 2 distinct or connate at base |
| Fruit type: | Capsule |
| Other: | Inflorescence coiled as in Boraginaceae, but ovary entire |
| Representatives: | Phacelia, Yerba Santa, |
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