Stackhousia Sm.

Genus

Angiosperms > Celastrales > Celastraceae

Characteristics

Annual, or perennial herbs with a rhizome. Leaves scattered, entire. Stipules 0 or very small. Racemes terminal. Flowers bisexual, regular, 5-merous, in groups in the axils of bracts. Sepals usually more or less connate, rarely free. Corolla perigynous or almost hypogynous, petals long-clawed, rarely entirely free, usually free at the base, connate in the upper portion of the claws, lobes imbricate spreading. Stamens 5, inserted on the margin of the calyx tube, free, usually unequal (2 shortest), included in the corolla tube. Ovary (2-)3(-5) celled, lobed, each cell with 1 erect ovule. Style with (2-)3(-5) stigmatic lobes, partly sunk in the ovary. Fruit with (2-)3(-5) one-seeded cocci and a columella.
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Hypanthium cup-shaped. Petals free at base, fused in middle, distally free. Stamens 3 long, 2 short, enclosed in corolla tube; filaments as long as or longer than glandless anthers; pollen reticulate. Ovary of 3–5 carpels; style without membranous cup; stigmatic lobes 3–5, spreading. Cocci 1–5, wingless or 3-winged, connected at base to gynoecial column by short triangular point of attachment, leaving a triangular scar after shedding; wings lacking prominent transverse veins; style inserted between and shorter than mature cocci.
Characters as for family as given above.
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Growth form herb
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Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Hardiness (USDA) 7-12

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