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Published In: Analyse de la Nature 176. 1815. (Apr-Jul 1815) (Anal. Nat.) Name publication detail
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
Contributor Text: YASIN J. NASIR
Contributor Institution: National Herbarium, Agricultural Research Council, Islamabad.
General/Distribution: A monotypic family with c. 33 species in Asia, Europe and temperate N. America.
Comment/Acknowledgements: Differs from Ranunculaceae in the following characters:

1. Morphological: Extrorse dehiscence of the anthers, the presence of a fleshy disc, the large follicles and arillate seeds.

2. Anatomical: Xylem vessels with scalariform plates (not simple perforations), also the xylem in the stem is not concave or v-shaped but it is rather flat. Large chromosomes of a type not found in Ranunculaceae.

Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the United States Department of Agriculture for financing this research under P.L. 480 and to Mr. I.C. Hedge of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh for going through the manuscript.


 

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Perennial herbs or shrubs with alternate, exstipulate leaves. Leaves 1-3-ternate. Flowers solitary, showy, regular, bisexual. Calyx of 5 free sepals, persistent. Corolla of 5(-10) free petals, Stamens many; anthers extrorse. Carpels 2-5 or 8, apocarpous on a fleshy disc. Fruit consisting of a cluster of (1-)2-8 follicles. Seeds several, large.
 

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