Fagaceae
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Authority
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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Family
Fagaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Family Description - Fls tiny, inconspicuous, unisexual (the plants monoecious) or some of them perfect; staminate fls borne in catkins or heads, with 4–7 (most commonly 6) minute, scale-like tepals, these distinct or connate below, or sometimes almost obsolete; stamens (4–)6–12(–40), on slender filaments; pistillate fls 1–7(–15) together at the base of the staminate catkins or from separate axils, individually or collectively subtended by an involucre that develops into a cupule; ovary inferior, of (2)3 or sometimes 6(7–12) carpels, with 3–7 minute tepals around the summit, or these obsolete; styles as many as the carpels; locules as many as the carpels, but the septa sometimes not reaching the summit of the ovarian cavity; ovules 2 in each locule, pendulous, anatropous; fr generally a nut with a stony to leathery pericarp, subtended at the base or more or less enclosed individually or collectively by an accrescent cupule or hull that appears to be composed of numerous, imbricate, concrescent bracts; seed solitary, with large, straight, dicotyledonous embryo and without endosperm; anemophilous or sometimes secondarily entomophilous trees or shrubs with alternate, simple, entire to deeply lobed, pinnately veined leaves and deciduous stipules. 6–8/800.
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Common Names
The beech family