Phytolaccaceae
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Authority
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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Family
Phytolaccaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Family Description - Fls rather small, perfect or sometimes unisexual, regular, hypogynous; sep 4 or 5; pet generally none; stamens typically twice as many as the sep, sometimes fewer or more numerous; gynoecium of 1–several carpels, these separate or ± connate into a ring, each with a single ovule, style, and stigma; seeds with peripheral, dicotyledonous embryo curved around a ± abundant perisperm; herbs or sometimes woody plants (then with anomalous secondary growth), with alternate, entire lvs, producing betalains but not anthocyanins, the fls most commonly in racemes or spikes. 18/125.
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Common Names
The pokeweed family