Monographs Details:
Authority:
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Family:
Urticaceae
Urticaceae
Description:
Description - Herbs (some tropical species shrubs or trees), with watery sap. mostly stipulate simple leaves, and small greenish dioecious, monoecious or polygamous flowers, variously clustered. Calyx 2-5-cleft, or of distinct sepals. Petals none. Stamens in the staminate flowers as many as the lobes or segments of the calyx (sepals) and opposite them, the filaments inflexed and anthers reversed in the bud. straightening at anthesis. Ovary superior, 1-celled; style simple; ovule solitary, erect or ascending, orthotropous, or in some genera partly ampbitropous. Fruit an aebene. Endosperm oil)-, usually not copious; embryo straight. About 40 genera and 550 species of wide geograpbic distribution.
Description - Herbs (some tropical species shrubs or trees), with watery sap. mostly stipulate simple leaves, and small greenish dioecious, monoecious or polygamous flowers, variously clustered. Calyx 2-5-cleft, or of distinct sepals. Petals none. Stamens in the staminate flowers as many as the lobes or segments of the calyx (sepals) and opposite them, the filaments inflexed and anthers reversed in the bud. straightening at anthesis. Ovary superior, 1-celled; style simple; ovule solitary, erect or ascending, orthotropous, or in some genera partly ampbitropous. Fruit an aebene. Endosperm oil)-, usually not copious; embryo straight. About 40 genera and 550 species of wide geograpbic distribution.