Chloranthaceae
Chloranthus Family
The Chloranthaceae family (Chloranthus Family) is a botanical family placed in the order Chloranthales. It is represented by a single species in the SASYA catalogue. That species is a shrub.
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Opposite, toothed leaves with swollen stem nodes on shrubs and herbs; tiny greenish flowers lack any petals or sepals at all, reduced to a single stamen fused directly onto the ovary, clustered into a narrow spike.
The flower here is reduced to its bare functional minimum — a single stamen fused right onto the ovary with no petals or sepals whatsoever — among the simplest floral structures in all flowering plants.
Typical leaf characters
- ArrangementOpposite
- TypeVariable
- MarginVariable
- VenationVariable
Characters typical of the family — individual species can vary.
Typical flower & fruit
- Flower symmetryVariable
- InflorescenceVariable
- FruitDrupe
Typical of the family — flowering plants only; species can vary.
All 1 species in CHLORANTHACEAE
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