


Habit: Annual to shrub, generally taprooted hairs stellate, simple, or 0. "Flower stalk" used instead of "pedicel," "peduncle," especially where both needed (i.e., when flowers both 1 in leaf axils and otherwise).ĮFlora Treatment Author: Steven R. Mature fruit needed for identification "outer edges" are surfaces between sides and back (abaxial surface) of segment. Note: Recently treated to include Bombacaceae, Sterculiaceae, Tiliaceae. Genera In Family: 266 genera, 4025 species: worldwide, especially warm regions some cultivated (e.g., Abelmoschus okra Alcea hollyhock Gossypium cotton Hibiscus hibiscus). Fruit: loculicidal capsule,, or 5-many, disk- or wedge-shaped segments (= mericarps).
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Flower: generally bisexual, radial sepals 5, generally fused at base, abutting in bud, larger in fruit or not, nectaries as tufts of glandular hairs at base petals (0)5, free from each other but generally fused at base to, falling with filament tube, clawed or not stamens 5-many, filaments fused for most of length into tube around style, staminodes 5, alternate stamens, or generally 0 pistil 1, ovary superior, stalked or generally not, chambers generally >= 5, styles or style branches, stigmas generally 1 or 1-2 × chamber number. Inflorescence: head, spike, raceme, or panicle, in panicle or not (a compound panicle), or flowers >= 1 in leaf axils, or flowers generally 1 opposite a leaf or on a spur bracts leaf-like or not bractlets 0 or on flowering stalks, often closely subtending calyx, generally in involucel. Leaf: generally cauline, alternate, petioled, simple, generally palmate-lobed and/or veined, generally toothed, evergreen or not stipules persistent or not. Habit: Annual to tree generally with stellate hairs, often with bristles or peltate scales juice generally mucilage-like bark fibrous.
