VITACEAE
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B0402C-FEC9-E260-FA3C-FE51DD9AFA91 |
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Plazi |
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VITACEAE |
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CIV. VITACEAE View in CoL 1
Shrubs, usually diffuse and climbing by means of leaf-opposed tendrils. Leaves alternate, stipulate, usually palmately lobed or divided. Flowers small, actinomorphic, in terminal or leafopposed cymes or panicles. Sepals 5, united; petals 5, free or united distally; stamens 5, antepetalous. Ovary superior, 2-locular; style and stigma 1; fruit a berry with 2-4 seeds.
Literature: K. Süssenguth in Engler & Prantl, Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien, ed. 2, 20d: 174-371. Leipzig & Berlin. 1953.
Leaves simple; bark usually peeling off in shreds; disc distinct from ovary; petals united distally, falling at anthesis 1. Vitis Leaves simple or digitate; bark not peeling off in shreds; disc merged in base of ovary; petals free, patent, persisting for at least a short time after anthesis 2. Parthenocissus
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