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Volume IV (1988) - Flora of New Zealand Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons
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Violaceae

VIOLACEAE

Herbs, shrubs or trees. Lvs usually alternate, simple, stipulate. Fls solitary, axillary or in racemes or fascicles, actinomorphic or zygomorphic, hypogynous, ⚥ or unisexual. Sepals 5, free, sometimes with basal appendages. Petals 5, free, equal or unequal, the lowest sometimes spurred. Stamens 5, united at base into a ring; anthers introrse; connective often projecting as an appendage. Ovary of 3-(5) fused carpels, 1-celled; placentation parietal. Style and stigma simple or lobed. Fr. a capsule dehiscing by 3-(5) valves, or an indehiscent berry. Seeds usually smooth; embryo straight; endosperm fleshy.

Key

1
Trees or shrubs; fls actinomorphic; fr. a berry
MELICYTUS†ζ
Herbs; fls zygomorphic; fr. a dehiscent capsule
2
2
Sepals with basal appendages; lvs distinctly petiolate; posterior petals broad
VIOLA
Sepals without basal appendages; lvs sessile or subsessile; posterior petals linear
HYBANTHUSζ

22 genera, 900 spp., cosmopolitan.

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