65 - Frankeniaceae
from Division 5 - Magnoliophyta
Summary
Perennial herbs, often with woody bases, or small shrubs. Leaves opposite, without stipules, often ericoid. Flowers solitary, terminal or in the forks of the branchlets. Calyx somewhat fleshy; lobes 5, connate at base. Petals 4–6, clawed, with a scale-like appendage on the claw. Stamens usually 6, in 2 whorls of 3; anthers 2-celled, opening lengthwise. Style 1, divided into 3 near the apex; stigmas 3, elongate. Ovary superior, 1-celled, with 2–4 parietal placentae; ovules numerous. Fruit a capsule enclosed in the calyx, opening by valves; seeds endospermous; embryo straight and axile.
Frankenia L.
As family.
Contains about 80 species with the distribution of the family.
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- Flora of Great Britain and Ireland , pp. 610 - 611Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018