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 petiolate sessile or stem-clasping but never sheathing the stem

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Corolla lobes valvate or imbricate but not contorted in the bud

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Stamens inserted at the throat of the corolla tube. Anthers versatile, attached to filament above their middle Epacris

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Stamens inserted at the base of the corolla tube. Anthers partially adnate to filament, connivent around the style but not cohering Rupicola