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Tribelaceae

Tribelaceae (Engl.) Airy Shaw, Kew Bull. 18: 269 (1965).Tribeleae Engl. in Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam., 2nd edn, 18a: 111 (1930) (‘Tribeliseae’).

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Flowering Plants. Eudicots

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Small creeping subshrubs, roots developing from the nodes; entire plant glabrous. Leaves alternate, pinnately veined with sheathing leaf-bases, simple, glaucescent, leaf margins entire but conspicuously tridentate at leaf tip. Flowers solitary, terminal, bisexual, ± actinomorphic, pentamerous; sepals basally fused, imbricate in bud, persistent; petals appearing distinct, imbricate or slightly contorted in bud; stamens oppositisepalous, distinct and isomerous with the petals, anthers basifixed, dithecal and tetrasporangiate; ovary epigynous, of three carpels, syncarpous, trilocular, style simple, stigma tri-lobed; fertile ovules numerous, anatropous, unitegmic, tenuinucellate. Fruit a many-seeded, ovate, loculicidal leathery capsule, seeds remaining attached to fruit axis after dehiscence. Endosperm nuclear, seeds small, rounded to obovate, testa black.

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Backlund, A. (2016). Tribelaceae. In: Kadereit, J., Bittrich, V. (eds) Flowering Plants. Eudicots. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, vol 14. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28534-4_33

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