Vitaceae

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Vitaceae

• Scientific Name

  Vitaceae

• Description

  Family Description - Fls regular, hypogynous, perfect or unisexual, mostly 4–5-merous; cal small, often scarcely lobed, or nearly obsolete; pet small, valvate in bud; stamens as many as and opposite the pet; ovary often somewhat sunken in the nectary disk, bilocular, with 2 erect, apotropous, nearly basal ovules per locule; style simple, with a discoid or capitate stigma; seeds with a conspicuous abaxial chalazal knot and 2 deep adaxial grooves; embryo small, with 2 cotyledons, embedded in the copious endosperm; mostly woody vines with lf-opposed tendrils and infls, the lvs stipulate,

• Common Names

  The grape family