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Loasaceae

LOASA FAMILY


Loasaceae
Habit: Annual to subshrub; hairs needle-like, barbed, occasionally stinging. Leaf: alternate [opposite], generally +- pinnate-lobed; stipules 0. Inflorescence: cyme, raceme. Flower: bisexual, radial; sepals generally 5, generally persistent; petals generally 5, free or fused to each other or filament tube; stamens 5--many, filaments thread-like to flat, occasionally fused at base or in clusters; petal-like staminodes occasionally present; pistil 1, ovary inferior, chamber generally 1, placentas generally 3, parietal, style 1. Fruit: capsule or achene. Seed: 1--many.
Genera In Family: 18+ genera, 250 species: especially America (Africa, Pacific).
Jepson eFlora Author: Larry Hufford & Barry Prigge
Reference: Ernst & Thompson 1963 J Arnold Arbor 44:138--142
Scientific Editor: Douglas H. Goldman, Bruce G. Baldwin.
Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)
Key to Loasaceae

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Citation for this treatment: Larry Hufford & Barry Prigge 2012, Loasaceae, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=177, accessed on February 06, 2025.

Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2025, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on February 06, 2025.