茅膏菜科

Habit: herb

Important diagnostics: spiny stems or leaves

Hairs: glandular

Taxon group: dicots

Stem: rhizome

Leaf: position: alternate, basal, rosette

Leaf: stipules: absent, present

Flowers: inflorescence: cyme

Flowers: sexuality: bisexual

Flowers: symmetry: actinomorphic

Flowers: sepal number/calyx lobes: 4, 5, 6

Flowers: sepal position: connate or basally connate

Flowers: sepal/calyx nature: imbricate

Flowers: petal number/corolla lobes: 4, 5, 6

Stamen: number: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10+

Stamen: arrangement: alternate or antesepalous

Stamen: anthers: extrorse, opening by longitudinal slits, 2-celled

Stamen: filaments: free, connate into 1 tube or bundle

Pistil: style: styles more than 1

Pistil: carpel: 2, 3, 4, 5

Pistil: ovary: 1-loculed

Pistil: pistil: ovules parietal placentation, ovules attached to the base of the ovary

Ovary: position: superior

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

Seed: embryo: straight

Seed: endosperm: seeds with endosperm

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Dictionary of The Families & Genera of Chinese Seed Plants: Link

Vascular Plant Type Catalog at NYBG: Link