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| Jepson eFlora: Taxon page
Key to families | Table of families and genera |
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Annual to shrub.
Leaf: simple, alternate; stipules small, tooth- or gland-like; blade entire to deeply lobed.
Inflorescence: raceme or spike, generally terminal.
Flower: generally bisexual, small, asymmetric, 1 per bract; sepals 2–8; petals 0–8; disk occasionally present; stamens 3–50+, generally on disk, anthers 2-chambered; carpels 2–8, generally fused, generally open distally, ovary superior, sessile or short-stalked, generally 1-chambered, stigmas beak-like.
Fruit: capsule, gaping at top, or berry.
Seed: few to many, reniform.
6 genera, ± 85 species: n&e hemispheres, especially Medit. [Martín-Bravo et al. 2007 Molec Phylogen Evol 44:1105–1120] —Scientific Editors: Douglas H. Goldman, Bruce G. Baldwin.
Unabridged references: [Abdallah & de Wit 1978 Meded Landbouwhogeschool 78(14):99–416]
Annual to perennial herb.Key to Reseda
Leaf: petioled or not; blade entire to deeply lobed.
Flower: sepals 4–8, margins generally white; petals 4–6[8], base generally dilated, limb generally lobed; stamens 10–25[40], on prominent disk; stigmas 3–5.
Fruit: capsule.
± 65 species: especially Eur, Medit; cultivated as ornamental and naturalized widely. (Latin: to calm, from supposed sedative property)
Annual, glabrous or sparsely hairy.
Stem: < 6 dm.
Leaf: entire to 3-lobed.
Inflorescence: bracts 2–6 mm, persistent in fruit; pedicel 4–12 mm.
Flower: sepals 6; petals 6, 2.5–4.5 mm, not alike, distal deeply lobed, proximal reduced, ± white; stamens 20–25, filaments not persistent.
Fruit: generally pendent, 3-parted.
Seed: 2–2.2 mm, rough.
2n=12,14. Disturbed ground; < 100 m. South Coast;
Previous taxon: Reseda luteola
Next taxon: Rhamnaceae
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) [year] Jepson eFlora, http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/IJM.html [accessed on month, day, year]
Citation for an individual treatment: [Author of taxon treatment] [year]. [Taxon name] in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, [URL for treatment]. Accessed on [month, day, year].
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