Monographs Details:
Authority:
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
Family:
Celastraceae
Celastraceae
Description:
Family Description - Fls perfect or less often unisexual, regular, 4–5-merous, mostly hypogynous, commonly rather small and not very showy; pet distinct, mostly imbricate; stamens alternate with the pet, seated outside or upon a nectary-disk; ovary superior but sometimes ± embedded in the disk, 2–5- locular, with 2–several axile, apotropous, mostly erect or ascending ovules per locule; style generally short, sometimes wanting; stigma capitate or lobed; fr in ours a loculicidal capsule; seeds commonly covered by a well developed aril; embryo with a short radicle and 2 large, flat cotyledons, embedded in the copious, oily endosperm; woody plants with simple lvs and minute or no stipules. 50/800, cosmop.
Family Description - Fls perfect or less often unisexual, regular, 4–5-merous, mostly hypogynous, commonly rather small and not very showy; pet distinct, mostly imbricate; stamens alternate with the pet, seated outside or upon a nectary-disk; ovary superior but sometimes ± embedded in the disk, 2–5- locular, with 2–several axile, apotropous, mostly erect or ascending ovules per locule; style generally short, sometimes wanting; stigma capitate or lobed; fr in ours a loculicidal capsule; seeds commonly covered by a well developed aril; embryo with a short radicle and 2 large, flat cotyledons, embedded in the copious, oily endosperm; woody plants with simple lvs and minute or no stipules. 50/800, cosmop.
Common Names:
The staff-tree family
The staff-tree family