ZYGOPHYLLACEAE
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.293200 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B0402C-FF23-E38A-FB64-F2DCD798F026 |
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Plazi |
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ZYGOPHYLLACEAE |
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LXXXV. ZYGOPHYLLACEAE View in CoL 4
Herbs or shrubs. Leaves stipulate, usually pinnate. Flowers hermaphrodite, usually actinomorphic, (4-)5-merous. Disc present. Stamens usually twice as many as petals. Ovary superior, usually angled or winged. Fruit dry or fleshy.
1 Spiny shrub 5. Nitraria 1 Herbs, sometimes woody at base*8
2 At least the basal leaves alternate; sepals persistent 3 Perennial; not succulent; flowers with long pedicels
1. Peganum 3 Annual; succulent; flowers subsessile 6. Tetradiclis 2 Leaves all opposite; sepals deciduous 4 Stipules spinose 2. Fagonia 4 Stipulesnotspinose 5 Flowers yellow; fruit spiny on the back 4. Tribulus 5 Flowers white; fruit not spiny 3. Zygophyllum
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