Botany
122:
Flowering Plant Identification
Flowering Plant Identification
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Botany
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Flowering Plant Identification |
| Glossary |
Malvaceae Mallow Family |
| Family: | Malvaceae Mallow Family |
| 100/2,000 13/91 pg. 746 | |
| Habit | Herbaceous |
| Stem: | various |
| Leaves: | simple, alternate, palmately veined, stellate pubescent |
| Inflorescence: | various |
| Flower: | Regular, perfect, hypogynous |
| Perianth: | 5-merous |
| Calyx: | 5 sepals, with sepal like bracts below |
| Corolla: | 5 petals, connate |
| Hypanthium: | Ø |
| Androecium: | Numerous stamens connate into a tube surrounding the style |
| Gynoecium: | Syncarpous 5-many |
| Ovary position: | Superior |
| Stigma: | Filiform or capitate |
| Style: | Connate |
| Fruit type: | Schizocarp |
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