半日花科

Habit: shrub, herb

Hairs: stellate

Taxon group: dicots

Leaf: position: opposite, alternate

Leaf: nature: simple

Leaf: blade: margin: entire

Leaf: stipules: absent, present

Flowers: inflorescence: solitary, raceme, panicle

Flowers: sexuality: bisexual

Flowers: symmetry: actinomorphic

Flowers: sepal number/calyx lobes: 0, 5

Flowers: sepal/calyx nature: imbricate

Flowers: petal number/corolla lobes: 0, 3, 5

Stamen: filaments: free

Pistil: style: style 1, or styles more or less connate

Pistil: ovary: 1-loculed

Pistil: ovule: 2 per locule, 3 per locule, 4+ per locule

Pistil: pistil: ovules parietal placentation

Ovary: position: superior

Fruit: types and characters: a capsule (incl. pod, follicle, etc.)

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Vascular Plant Type Catalog at NYBG: Link