Gnetaceae
Gnetum Family
The Gnetaceae family (Gnetum Family) is a botanical family placed in the order Gnetales. In the SASYA catalogue it spans 2 species. Members range from liana key identification features : large evergreen, dioecious climber; branches smooth and slender, swollen at the nodes, bark peeling off in pieces. leaves dark green. male inflorescence branched twice; female inflorescence branched twice or thrices to liana key identification features : a large woody dioecious climber with jointed branches at the nodes; inflorescence is spicate, axillary with many superposed cupular connate bracts called collars, each collar containing unisexual sessile flowers; seeds are endospermous enclosed with three envelopes forming a pseudos.
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Woody vines, shrubs, or small trees with broad, opposite, net-veined leaves that look remarkably like a typical flowering-plant leaf despite the family being a gymnosperm; reproduction is by small conelets clustered in whorled rings along the stem rather than true flowers.
One of the very few gymnosperms with broad, net-veined leaves resembling ordinary flowering plants — a striking exception among cone-bearing plants, most of which have needle- or scale-like leaves.
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