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Resedaceae

Resedaceae
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Cecelia Alexander
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Santiago Martín-Bravo, Gordon C. Tucker, Thomas F. Daniel in Flora of North America (vol. 7)
Herbs [shrubs], annual, biennial, or perennial; usually glabrous, sometimes puberulent (producing glucosinolates). Stems erect or ascending; unbranched or branched. Leaves cauline and sometimes basal; rosulate or not; alternate, sometimes fasciculate, simple; venation pinnate; stipules present (modified into glands, interpetiolar, distinct); petiole present; blade (sometimes pinnately lobed, base somewhat decurrent on petioles) margins entire, pinnatisect, or with 1-2 hyaline teeth. Inflorescences usually terminal, sometimes axillary, racemes or spikes; bracts present. Pedicels present or absent. Flowers bisexual [unisexual or polygamous], ± zygomorphic (almost actinomorphic); perianth and androecium hypogynous [rarely perigynous]; sepals persistent or deciduous, 2-6[-8], distinct or basally connate, equal or unequal, margins usually hyaline; petals [0-]2-6(-8), imbricate, distinct or connate, rotate, attached to receptacle, heteromorphic, lateral and abaxial (anterior) usually progressively smaller, adaxial (superior) ones larger, clawed, margins entire or incised; intrastaminal nectary-discs present or absent, asymmetrical, simple [double]; stamens 3-40 (adaxial ones shorter); filaments persistent or deciduous, distinct or basally connate, glabrous or scaberulous; anthers dehiscing by longitudinal slits, introrse, tetrasporangiate (pollen shed as single grain), binucleate, commonly 3-aperturate, colpate or colporate; pistils [2-]3-4[-6(-8)], connate [distinct or basally connate] (± open apically), each with an apical tooth (style and stigma) containing stigmatic tissue; ovary [2 or] 3 or 4 [6(-8)]; (placentation parietal [basal-axial or marginal], placenta usually entire, sometimes apically forked; ovules 1-many per locule, campylotropous, bitegmic. Fruits capsules [sometimes free carpidia], valvate [fleshy], cylindric, ovoid-oblong, subglobose, or ovoid, ± open apically; gynophore present (sometimes minute, hidden by surrounding disc). Seeds 3-ca. 30, brownish or dark brown to black, reniform, papillose, rugose, or smooth; not arillate; endosperm scanty or none; cotyledons incumbent.
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Astrocarpa clusii
Media resource of Astrocarpa clusii
Astrocarpa sesamoides
Media resource of Astrocarpa sesamoides
Caylusea abyssinica
Media resource of Caylusea abyssinica
Caylusea hexagyna
Media resource of Caylusea hexagyna
Caylusea latifolia
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not available
Forchhammeria brevipes
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Forchhammeria haitiensis
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Forchhammeria hintonii
Media resource of Forchhammeria hintonii
Forchhammeria longifolia
Media resource of Forchhammeria longifolia
Forchhammeria macrocarpa
Media resource of Forchhammeria macrocarpa
Forchhammeria pallida
Media resource of Forchhammeria pallida
Forchhammeria polyandra
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Forchhammeria sessilifolia
Media resource of Forchhammeria sessilifolia
Forchhammeria sphaerocarpa
Media resource of Forchhammeria sphaerocarpa
Forchhammeria tamaulipana
Media resource of Forchhammeria tamaulipana
Forchhammeria trifoliata
Media resource of Forchhammeria trifoliata
Forchhammeria watsonii
Media resource of Forchhammeria watsonii
Ochradenus baccatus
Media resource of Ochradenus baccatus
Ochradenus somalensis
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Oligomeris glaucescens
Media resource of Oligomeris glaucescens
Oligomeris linifolia
Media resource of Oligomeris linifolia
Oligomeris subulata
Media resource of Oligomeris subulata
Randonia africana
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Reseda alba
Media resource of Reseda alba
Reseda alopecuros
Media resource of Reseda alopecuros
Reseda alphonsii
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Reseda amblycarpa
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Reseda arabica
Media resource of Reseda arabica
Reseda attenuata
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Reseda aucheri
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Reseda battandieri
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Reseda collina
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Reseda complicata
Media resource of Reseda complicata
Reseda crystallina
Media resource of Reseda crystallina
Reseda decursiva
Media resource of Reseda decursiva
Reseda diffusa
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Reseda duriaeana
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Reseda elata
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Reseda ellenbeckii
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Reseda glauca
Media resource of Reseda glauca
Reseda globulosa
Media resource of Reseda globulosa
Reseda gredensis
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Reseda inodora
Media resource of Reseda inodora
Reseda lanceolata
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Reseda lancerotae
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Reseda lutea
Media resource of Reseda lutea
Reseda luteola
Media resource of Reseda luteola
Reseda massae
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Reseda mazarriensis
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not available
Reseda media
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