Alseuosmiaceae
Alseuosmiaceae Airy Shaw, Kew Bull. 18 249 1965 . Platyspermatiaceae Doweld 2001 . Shrubs, sometimes creeping or epiphytic sub-shrubs. Leaves alternate, sub-opposite or in pseudo-whorls, simple, entire or serrate, estipulate. Multicellular, uniseriate hairs present in leaf axils, rarely also on leaves and stems, and erect unicellular hairs sometimes present on both leaves and stems. Flowers regular, hermaphroditic or functionally unisexual, tetra- or pentamerous, rarely up to hexamerous,...
Calyceraceae
Calyceraceae R. Br. ex Rich., Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat. 6 74 1820 , nom. cons. F.H. Hellwig Perennial or rarely annual herbs, occasionally subligneous, often stemless or with scapiform flowering shoots. Leaves alternate, often forming a basal rosette, somewhat fleshy, without stipules, sessile or narrowed into a distinct petiole, undivided to dissected, margin entire, sinuate, dentate or serrate, sometimes revolute. Flowers in capitula, surrounded by triangular to lanceolate involucral bracts which...
Argophyllaceae
Argophyllaceae Engl. Takht., Systema Magnoliophytorum 208 1987 . Corokiaceae Kapil ex Takht. 1997 . Shrubs or small trees. T-shaped trichomes present on stems, leaves, inflorescences, and flowers. Leaves alternate or in 3-4-leaved fascicles on brachyblasts , simple, estipulate with entire or serrate margins. Flowers borne in axile or sometimes terminal panicles or racemes, sometimes in few-flowered fascicles or solitary, regular, hermaphroditic, mostly pentamerous. Aestivation valvate. Sepals 5...
Asterales Introduction and Conspectus
Asterales incl. Campanulales of many authors , with Alseuosmiaceae, Argophyllaceae, Composi-tae Asteraceae , Calyceraceae, Campanulaceae incl. Cyphiaceae, Lobeliaceae, Nemacladaceae , Carpodetaceae included in Rousseaceae by APG II 2003 , Goodeniaceae, Menyanthaceae, Pentaphragmataceae, Phellinaceae, Rousseaceae and Stylidiaceae incl. Donatiaceae , contain about 26,300 species in c. 1,720 genera. The large majority of species and genera belong to Compositae and Campanulaceae. The order is well...
