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Hydrangeaceae

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Flowering Plants · Dicotyledons

Part of the book series: The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants ((FAMILIES GENERA,volume 6))

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Perennial shrubs, vines, or herbs from woody rhizomes; bark exfoliating in strips or sheets. Leaves evergreen or deciduous, generally opposite, less commonly whorled or alternate, exstipulate; petioles prominent to inconspicuous; lamina simple, entire or toothed, uncommonly lobed. Inflorescences cymose, sometimes in corymbs, thyrses, or panicles; flowers few and large to numerous and small; sterile flowers with enlarged, showy calyces in some. Flowers bisexual or unisexual, rarely dioecious; calyx imbricate or valvate; sepals 4–12, free or basally united; corolla imbricate, valvate, or convolute; petals 4–12, basally fused, or petals completely united and calyptrate; androecium haplostemonous, diplostemonous, or polystemonous, stamens 4-numerous, free or basally united; filaments flat and linear, subulate, or filiform, distal forks present or absent; anthers basifixed, tetrasporangiate, with distal connective protrusion in some; gynoecium 2–12-carpellate, syncarpous; ovary partially to completely inferior; placentation usually axile at the base and parietal above, rarely strictly axile or strictly parietal; ovules 2-many, anatropous; stylodia free, or a single style, sometimes with distal style branches; stigmas usually papillate, less commonly smooth. Fruits capsules or berries. Seed length 10 mm or less; testa sculpture reticulate.

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Hufford, L. (2004). Hydrangeaceae. In: Kubitzki, K. (eds) Flowering Plants · Dicotyledons. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, vol 6. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-07257-8_22

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