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:
Caryophyllaceae
Caryophyllaceae
Description:
Family Description - Fls mostly perfect, usually regular (4)5-merous as to the cal and cor; pet generally distinct, sometimes of very ordinary nature, sometimes bifid from the tip, sometimes with a long basal claw, and then often with variously developed appendages ventrally at the juncture of claw and blade; stamens commonly 5 or 10, seldom only 1–4; filaments variously hypogynous, free and distinct, or basally adnate to the pet to form a short or ± elongate tube that may or may not be adnate to a gynophore, or inserted at the edge of a glandular disk surrounding the ovary , or even (Scleranthus) borne on a hypanthium; ovary superior , mostly 2–5-carpellary , typically unilocular but sometimes with partitions at the base, rarely (as in spp. of Silene) plurilocular for much of its length; styles distinct or ± united; ovules 1–many on a central (or proximally axile) placenta, the placenta often continuous and attached to the top as well as the base of the ovary, but sometimes free at the top, or reduced to a basal nubbin; fr most commonly a capsule dehiscent by as many or twice as many valves or apical teeth as there are styles, less often indehiscent and utricular, and then sometimes enclosed in the persistent, indurated cal or hypanthium; seeds commonly lenticular; embryo slender, dicotyledonous, excentric, commonly peripheral and curved around the abundant perisperm; herbs (all ours) or rarely shrubs, generally producing anthocyanins, but not betalains, the stems commonly swollen at the nodes; lvs opposite or rarely (as in Corrigiola) alternate, simple, entire, often connected by a transverse line at the base, provided with scarious or hyaline stipules in the Paronychioideae, otherwise exstipulate; fls commonly in dichasial cymes, or sometimes solitary. 75/2000.
Family Description - Fls mostly perfect, usually regular (4)5-merous as to the cal and cor; pet generally distinct, sometimes of very ordinary nature, sometimes bifid from the tip, sometimes with a long basal claw, and then often with variously developed appendages ventrally at the juncture of claw and blade; stamens commonly 5 or 10, seldom only 1–4; filaments variously hypogynous, free and distinct, or basally adnate to the pet to form a short or ± elongate tube that may or may not be adnate to a gynophore, or inserted at the edge of a glandular disk surrounding the ovary , or even (Scleranthus) borne on a hypanthium; ovary superior , mostly 2–5-carpellary , typically unilocular but sometimes with partitions at the base, rarely (as in spp. of Silene) plurilocular for much of its length; styles distinct or ± united; ovules 1–many on a central (or proximally axile) placenta, the placenta often continuous and attached to the top as well as the base of the ovary, but sometimes free at the top, or reduced to a basal nubbin; fr most commonly a capsule dehiscent by as many or twice as many valves or apical teeth as there are styles, less often indehiscent and utricular, and then sometimes enclosed in the persistent, indurated cal or hypanthium; seeds commonly lenticular; embryo slender, dicotyledonous, excentric, commonly peripheral and curved around the abundant perisperm; herbs (all ours) or rarely shrubs, generally producing anthocyanins, but not betalains, the stems commonly swollen at the nodes; lvs opposite or rarely (as in Corrigiola) alternate, simple, entire, often connected by a transverse line at the base, provided with scarious or hyaline stipules in the Paronychioideae, otherwise exstipulate; fls commonly in dichasial cymes, or sometimes solitary. 75/2000.
Common Names:
The pink family
The pink family