Thymelaeaceae
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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
Thymelaeaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Family Description - Fls perfect or sometimes unisexual, usually regular, mostly 4–5-merous, perigynous with a campanulate to tubular hypanthium on which the usually ± petaloid sep appear as lobes, or the sep scarcely developed; pet small or none; stamens typically bicyclic, in our genera 8; ovary superior, commonly subtended by a hypogynous disk, in our genera unilocular, with one well developed carpel and a second vestigial one; style one, often excentric, sometimes very short; ovule solitary, pendulous; fr mostly indehiscent; seed with a straight embryo, 2 expanded cotyledons, and little or no endosperm; highly poisonous woody plants or seldom herbs; lvs simple, entire, exstipulate, alternate in our genera. 50/500, cosmop.
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Common Names
The mezereum family