Aceraceae
-
Authority
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
-
Family
Aceraceae
-
Scientific Name
-
Description
Family Description - Fls regular, some of or all them functionally (or fully) unisexual, hypogynous or the staminate ones sometimes perigynous; sep (4)5(6), imbricate, distinct or sometimes connate below; pet (4)5(6), imbricate, distinct, often much like the sep, or sometimes wanting; stamens typically 8, but sometimes 4, 5, or 10–12, seated inside or outside or upon the nectary-disk, or the disk obsolete; ovary mostly bilocular, visibly compressed at right angles to the septum; styles distinct, or the style solitary and shortly to deeply lobed; ovules (1)2 per locule; fr generally a double samara, the usually 1-seeded, winged mericarps eventually separating from a persistent carpophore; embryo with elongate radicle and 2 flat or plicate, green cotyledons; endosperm wanting; trees or shrubs with opposite, usually exstipulate, simple or less often compound lvs and small fls in various sorts of infls. Only Acer and Dipteronia, the latter with 2 Chinese spp.
-
Common Names
The maple family