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Vascular plant groups
Club mosses
Ferns
Vegetative key to families
Gymnosperms
Flowering plants
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Ericaceae
Stamens
coherent
around the
style
(includes Epacridaceae)
Ericaceae
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Stamens 4–5, as many as
corolla
lobes or less
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Style
inserted in a ± deep pit in the
ovary
summit. Fruit a
capsule
; seeds numerous in each
loculus
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Leaves with a sheathing base which falls off with the leaf
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Leaves
petiolate
sessile
or stem-clasping but never sheathing the stem