Zygophyllaceae
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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
Zygophyllaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Family Description - Fls hypogynous, mostly perfect and regular, 4- or 5-merous, with distinct (or no) pet; stamens mostly 2 or 3 times as many as the pet; nectary-disk variously intra- or extrastaminal, or of separate glands; carpels mostly 4 or 5, united to form a compound, plurilocular ovary with axile placentas and a slender style with 1–several stigmas (the locules each divided into 2 locelli in Kallstroemia); ovules 1–several per locule, mostly epitropous; fr most commonly a capsule or schizocarp; embryo straight or slightly curved, with 2 cotyledons; endosperm hard and oily, or (in our genera) wanting; herbs (ours) or more often woody plants, the stem often swollen at the nodes; lvs evidently stipulate, bifoliolate or pinnately or often bipinnately compound, commonly without a terminal lfl. 30/250, mostly of warm dry reg.
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Common Names
The creosote-bush family