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:
Melastomataceae
Melastomataceae
Description:
Family Description - Fls commonly showy, mostly perfect, partly or wholly epigynous (or strongly perigynous with the hypanthium enveloping but free from the ovary), mostly 4–5-merous, regular except for the stamens; sep valvate; pet convolute, distinct; stamens usually twice as many as the pet; filaments generally inflexed in bud (each anther sometimes occupying a cavity between the hypanthium and the ovary), commonly twisted at anthesis so as to bring all the anthers to one side of the fl; anthers mostly opening by terminal pores; connective commonly provided with one or more appendages of diverse form; nectaries mostly wanting; ovary mostly 3–5-locular, with a terminal style and capitate or punctate stigma; ovules ± numerous, mostly axile; fr a loculicidal capsule or a berry; embryo with 2 commonly unequal cotyledons; endosperm wanting; lvs simple, usually opposite and entire, mostly exstipulate, commonly with 3–9 prominent veins, the lateral ones arching and subparallel. 200/4000, mostly of warm reg., esp. S. Amer.
Family Description - Fls commonly showy, mostly perfect, partly or wholly epigynous (or strongly perigynous with the hypanthium enveloping but free from the ovary), mostly 4–5-merous, regular except for the stamens; sep valvate; pet convolute, distinct; stamens usually twice as many as the pet; filaments generally inflexed in bud (each anther sometimes occupying a cavity between the hypanthium and the ovary), commonly twisted at anthesis so as to bring all the anthers to one side of the fl; anthers mostly opening by terminal pores; connective commonly provided with one or more appendages of diverse form; nectaries mostly wanting; ovary mostly 3–5-locular, with a terminal style and capitate or punctate stigma; ovules ± numerous, mostly axile; fr a loculicidal capsule or a berry; embryo with 2 commonly unequal cotyledons; endosperm wanting; lvs simple, usually opposite and entire, mostly exstipulate, commonly with 3–9 prominent veins, the lateral ones arching and subparallel. 200/4000, mostly of warm reg., esp. S. Amer.
Common Names:
The melastome family
The melastome family