Abstract
Evergreen or sometimes deciduous herbs, shrubs or trees; glands or canals in most parts of the plant; xanthones widespread; hairs uni- or multicellular, eglandular, colleters common; terminal bud scaly or naked; leaves opposite, occasionally whorled or alternate, entire, estipulate; in florescences terminal, more or less cymose, rarely axillary or flowers single, flowers polysymmetric, perfect, usually with prophylls; sepals free, (2-)4-5; petals (3)4-5, free; stamens (9-)∞, freeorvariously fasciculate or connate, anthers < 1(-1.2)mm long, dithecate, extrose, opening by slits, connective often with glands, staminodes alternipetalous or 0; nectary absent; ovary superior, 3-5-locular, placentation axile to parietal, ovules 1-∞/carpel, anatropous, bitegmic, tenuinucellate; stylodia free or basally more or less fused or style single, stigmas more or less expanded, smooth and sticky or ±punctate and papillate; fruit baccate or capsular, rarely a drupe; seeds small, winged or not, exotegmen lignified, with sinuous anticlinal walls; embryo straight or rarely curved; endosperm initially nuclear, often absent at maturity; germination epigeal, phanerocotylar.
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Stevens, P.F. (2007). Hypericaceae. In: Kubitzki, K. (eds) Flowering Plants · Eudicots. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, vol 9. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-32219-1_24
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