Vegetative key to the families

Vegetative Key Vegetative key to the families

WOODY PLANT(usually shrubs) with leaves with PARALLEL VENATION (Fig. 26). Leaves alternate or spirally arranged, often crowded, rigid, ericoid, often sharp-pointed; the margins usually entire but sometimes denticulate; stipules absent 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