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Vascular plant groups
Club mosses
Ferns
Vegetative key to families
Gymnosperms
Flowering plants
Genera
Families
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Vegetative key to the families
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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
petiolate
sessile
or stem-clasping but never sheathing the stem
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Corolla
lobes
imbricate
and
contorted
in the bud
Woollsia
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Corolla
lobes
valvate
or
imbricate
but not
contorted
in the bud