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:
Meliaceae
Meliaceae
Description:
Family Description - Fls regular, hypogynous, perfect or unisexual; sep commonly connate at least below; pet usually as many as the sep, distinct or seldom connate below; stamens twice as many as the pet, or seldom as many as and alternate with the pet, usually monadelphous, the filament-tube often with appendages; nectary-disk intrastaminal, sometimes adnate to the ovary or modified into an androgynophore; ovary mostly 2–5-locular, with a single style; ovules typically 2 per locule, axile, generally pendulous and epitropous; fr a capsule, or less often a berry or drupe; embryo spatulate, with 2 cotyledons; endosperm oily; woody plants with bitter bark and alternate, exstipulate, pinnately compound or trifoliolate lvs. 51/550, mostly of warm reg.
Family Description - Fls regular, hypogynous, perfect or unisexual; sep commonly connate at least below; pet usually as many as the sep, distinct or seldom connate below; stamens twice as many as the pet, or seldom as many as and alternate with the pet, usually monadelphous, the filament-tube often with appendages; nectary-disk intrastaminal, sometimes adnate to the ovary or modified into an androgynophore; ovary mostly 2–5-locular, with a single style; ovules typically 2 per locule, axile, generally pendulous and epitropous; fr a capsule, or less often a berry or drupe; embryo spatulate, with 2 cotyledons; endosperm oily; woody plants with bitter bark and alternate, exstipulate, pinnately compound or trifoliolate lvs. 51/550, mostly of warm reg.
Common Names:
The mahogany family
The mahogany family