Dipsacaceae
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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
Dipsacaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Family Description - Fls sympetalous, mostly perfect, epigynous, ± irregular; cal small, cupulate or deeply cut into 4 or 5 segments or into more numerous teeth or bristles; cor 4–5-lobed, often ± 2-lipped; stamens (2–)4, borne near the top of the cor-tube, alternate with the lobes, exsert, not connate; style with a simple or 2-lobed stigma; ovary inferior, unilocular, with a solitary, apical, pendulous ovule; fr dry, indehiscent, enclosed (except at the tip) by a gamophyllous, apically cupulate- toothed or subentire involucel that may be adnate to the ovary below; seeds with large, spatulate, dicotyledonous embryo and rather scanty, oily endosperm; herbs with opposite or whorled, exstipulate lvs, the fls ordinarily in dense, involucrate, cymose heads. 10/270, Old World.
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Common Names
The teasel family