Haemodoraceae Haemodoraceae (Phlebocarya) Basally 3- and Apically 1-Locular Or (Barberetta) 1-Locular by Abortion of Latero M.G
212 Haemodoraceae Haemodoraceae (Phlebocarya) basally 3- and apically 1-locular or (Barberetta) 1-locular by abortion of latero M.G. SIMPSON anterior carpels; placentation axile (basal in Phlebocarya); ovules 1-7 or numerous (ca. 20-50) per carpel, anatropous or atropous, hypotropous, pleurotropous or irregularly positioned; style ter minal (subapical in Barberetta), terete or flattened on one side, straight (or curved), stigma oblong, ovoid or rudimentary, minutely papillate; septa! Haemodoraceae R. Br., Prodr. 1: 299 (1810), nom. cons. nectaries present in most taxa. Fruit a 1-many seeded, loculicidal to apically poricidal capsule, Erect to decumbent perennials with a sympodial sometimes indehiscent (in Anigozanthos ful rhizome or a stolon, corm or bulb. Roots and iginosus dehiscing along septae into 3 single subterranean stems often red or reddish. Leaves seeded mericarps). Seeds discoid, ellipsoid, ovoid basal or cauline, distichous, generally ascending, or globose, smooth to longitudinally ridged, straight, rarely bent or twisted; base sheathing and glabrous or hairy; endosperm starchy, embryo equitant, blades ensiform, unifacial, lanceolate, minute, positioned at micropylar end . narrowly linear or acicular, hollow-tubular in A tropical to temperate family of 13 genera and Tribonanthes, entire, acuminate, mucronate, or about 100 species distributed in eastern and aristate, glabrous or pubescent, fl.at, plicate in southeastern N America, Cuba, southern Mexico, Barberetta and Wachendorfia. Inflorescence ter Mesoamerica, northern S America, S Africa, New minal on short to elongate aerial shoots, scapose Guinea and Australia . to subscapose, bracteate, consisting of a simple raceme (Barberetta), a raceme or panicle 'of 1, 2, VEGETATIVEMORPHOLOGY . The main subterra or 3-many flower clusters (Haemodorum), or a nean stems bear distichous scalelike or photosyn corymb, raceme, panicle or capitulum of simple, thetic leaves with axillary buds developing into bifurcate, or trifurcate helicoid cymes.
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