Ancistrodadaceae
Ancistrodadaceae Planch, ex Walp., Ann. Bot. Syst. 2 175 Large woody lianas branches sympodial with a series of circinate woody hooks in one plane. Leaves alternate, often crowded in rosettes on lateral flowering shoots, simple, entire stipules small and caducous petioles articulated, often leaving a saddle-shaped scar on the twigs. Inflorescences racemes, spikes or dichasially branched panicles. Flowers bisexual regular, usually less than 2 cm in diameter calyx tube at first short, at length...
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Fig. 3. Cladogram of Malvalcs, based on the eudicot rbcL matrix of Savolainen Fay et al. 2000 , and the Tepuianthus sequences generously supplied by K. Wurdack and J. Horn Sapindales were used as outgroup omitted . The numbers above the branches are estimated substitutions ACCTRAN optimisation the percentages below are bootstrap frequencies estimated using equal weighting. The tree illustrated is one of eight, equally parsimonious trees selected by using successive approximation weighting....
Bataceae
Bataceae Mart, ex Meisn., PL Vase. Gen., Tab. Diagn. 349 Low shrubs, often nodding to prostrate, glabrous or glabrescent dioecious Batis maritima L. or monoecious Batis argillicola van Royen . Leaves decussate, simple, obovoid or linear, succulent, sessile stipules minute, caducous. Flowers in condensed cone-like catkins or in lax spike-like inflorescences, subtended by bracts, sub sessile. Male flowers with a sheath that splits into 2 lobes petals 4, long-clawed stamens 4, alternipetalous,...
Bixaceae
Bixaceae Link, Handb. 2 371 1831 , nom. cons. Evergreen trees or shrubs with yellow or reddish sap. Leaves, fruits and young parts of stems with brown peltate hairs. Leaves alternate, simple and entire, palmatinerved, long-petiolate, stipulate. Flowers in terminal thyrsoids, large and showy, bisexual, hypogynous, actinomorphic. Pedicels with 5 conspicuous glands below the calyx. Sepals 5, free, imbricate, caducous. Petals 5, free, imbricate, alternating with sepals, white or pink. Stamens...
