Grossulariaceae
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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
Grossulariaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Family Description - Fls regular or nearly so, mostly perfect, perigynous to more often epigynous with a prolonged, saucer-shaped to tubular hypanthium, the (3–)5(–9) persistent sep appearing as lobes on the hypanthium or sometimes forming a cal-tube that extends beyond the hypanthium, sometimes ± petaloid and more showy than the proper pet, these sometimes wanting; stamens mostly as many as and opposite the sep, but a second, functional or staminodial set sometimes present alternate with the sep; carpels 2–3(–7) generally united to form a compound, superior to usually ± inferior ovary, this plurilocular with axile placentas, or unilocular with ± intruded parietal placentas; fr a capsule or berry with numerous, often arillate seeds; endosperm copious to scanty; cotyledons 2; shrubs or sometimes trees with mostly alternate, simple (but often deeply cleft), exstipulate or seldom (as in Itea) stipulate lvs, the fls mostly in racemes, less often in panicles or small umbels or corymbs or solitary and axillary. 25/300+.
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Common Names
The gooseberry family