ELAEAGNACEAE

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1981, Flora Europaea. Volume 2. Rosaceae to Umbelliferae, Cambridge University Press : 261

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.293200

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B0402C-FEDA-E273-FB11-FE73DEF0FC74

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scientific name

ELAEAGNACEAE
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CVIII. ELAEAGNACEAE View in CoL 1

Trees or shrubs with peltate or stellate, scale-like hairs. Leaves entire. Flowers perigynous, apetalous. Hypanthium 2- or 4- lobed; lobes valvate; stamens as many as sepals and alternating with them, or twice as many; ovary superior, unilocular; ovule solitary, basal. Fruit drupe-like, the dry fruit being surrounded by the fleshy hypanthium.

Dioecious; calyx 2-lobed 1. Hippophae Polygamous ; calyx 4-lobed 2. Elaeagnus

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