Geraniaceae
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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
Geraniaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Family Description - Fls mostly perfect, regular or (notably in Pelargonium) somewhat irregular, hypogynous, mostly 5-merous; pet distinct, mostly imbricate; extrastaminal nectary-glands usually alternate with the pet; stamens mostly 10 in 2 cycles, the outer (antepetalous) cycle often staminodial; carpels mostly 5, united to form a compound, plurilocular ovary with axile placentas and a single style with distinct stigmas; ovules mostly 2 per locule, superposed, epitropous, pendulous; in the tribe Geranieae (including our genera) the pistil with a prominent, elongating, gynobasic stylar column to which the fertile locular portion of the ovary appears to be attached in a lobed ring at the base, the fr with 5 1-seeded mericarps that usually separate elastically and acropetally from the persistent column, the mericarps often opening ventrally to discharge the seed; cotyledons 2; endosperm mostly scanty or none; mostly herbs with stipulate, lobed or compound or dissected lvs, the fls in cymose (often umbelliform) infls or solitary and axillary. 11/700, cosmop.
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Common Names
The geranium family