Hydrangeaceae Dumort.
Details
Hydrangeaceae Dumort.
Hydrangeaceae Dumort.
Nomenclature
Dumort.
Dumort.
ICN
Hydrangeaceae Dumort.
family
Hydrangeaceae
Classification
Subordinates
Descriptions
Hydrangeaceae Dumort.
Herbs or softly woody shrubs, rarely climbers. Lvs usually opposite, rarely alternate, simple; stipules 0. Fls in cymes, panicles or corymbs, regular, 4-5-merous, usually ☿, sometimes sterile with enlarged petal-like sepals. Calyx 5-merous; tube ± adnate to ovary; sepals imbricate. Petals 4-5, free, contorted or valvate. Stamens twice as many as petals or numerous; anthers basi- or medifixed, 2-locular. Ovary 2-6-locular or incompletely so, 1/2 to fully inferior; styles as many as loculi, free or partly connate; ovules numerous on axile or intrusive parietal placentas, anatropous. Fr. a loculicidal capsule; seeds numerous, small, sometimes winged and reticulate.
Taxonomic concepts
Hydrangeaceae Dumort.
Hydrangeaceae
Hydrangeaceae Dumort.
Metadata
3194a7b5-8335-4a67-8725-81c3b0232344
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
3 August 2011