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wfo-7000000450
Pentaphylacaceae Engl.

  • Nat. Pflanzenfam., Nachträge 1: 214. 1897. (4 Oct 1897) 

  • The family Pentaphylacaceae is in the major group Angiosperms.

    The record derives from World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. (data supplied on 2022-04-18) which reports it as an accepted name (record 42000090 )

Pentaphylacaceae Engl.
  • Nat. Pflanzenfam., Nachträge 1: 214. 1897. (4 Oct 1897) 


Cite taxon page as 'WFO (2023): Pentaphylacaceae Engl. Published on the Internet;http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-7000000450. Accessed on: 06 Dec 2023'

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Shrubs or trees, evergreen. Stipules persistent. Leaves simple, alternate. Flowers axillary, bisexual, actinomorphic, arranged into pseudospikes or pseudoracemes along branchlets below apex. Bracteoles 2, persistent, close to calyx. Sepals 5, persistent, unequal, imbricate. Petals 5, white, imbricate in bud, basally slightly connate. Stamens 5, inflexed in bud, alternate with petals, shorter than petals; anthers small, 2-celled, dehiscing by apical pores. Ovary superior, 5-loculed; ovules 2 per locule, collateral, pendulous from locule apex; style simple, apically 5-lobed. Capsule 5-loculed, loculicidal. Seeds 2 per locule; embryo U-shaped; endosperm very thin.

  • Provided by: [A].Flora of China @ efloras.org
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    Flora of China @ efloras.orgGeneral Information

    Shrubs or trees, evergreen. Stipules persistent. Leaves simple, alternate. Flowers axillary, bisexual, actinomorphic, arranged into pseudospikes or pseudoracemes along branchlets below apex. Bracteoles 2, persistent, close to calyx. Sepals 5, persistent, unequal, imbricate. Petals 5, white, imbricate in bud, basally slightly connate. Stamens 5, inflexed in bud, alternate with petals, shorter than petals; anthers small, 2-celled, dehiscing by apical pores. Ovary superior, 5-loculed; ovules 2 per locule, collateral, pendulous from locule apex; style simple, apically 5-lobed. Capsule 5-loculed, loculicidal. Seeds 2 per locule; embryo U-shaped; endosperm very thin.

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    Flora of China @ efloras.org
    'Flora of China @ eFloras (2008). Published on the Internet http://www.efloras.org/flora_page.aspx?flora_id=2 [accessed August 2016]' Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
    • A Missouri Botanical Garden
    Pentaphylacaceae
    https://powo.science.kew.org/
    World Flora Online Data. 2022.
    • B CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0).
    Vahliaceae
    http://www.worldfloraonline.org/organisation/Vahliaceae
    World Flora Online Data. 2021.
    • C CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0).