Seed Plant Encyclopedia

All species of the Polygalaceae family found in Japan are herbaceous. The leaves are simple, alternate, and lack stipules. The flowers are bisexual and bilaterally symmetrical. There are 5 sepals. The petals are 5 in number, partially reduced or fused. There are 4 or 8 stamens, fused at the base. The ovary is superior and 2-chambered. The fruit is a capsule or drupe. [...].

The Fabaceae family is a large family of vascular plants, second only to the Asteraceae and Orchidaceae families in terms of the number of species it contains. It includes many useful plants used for food and other purposes, and is deeply connected to human life. It includes herbs and woody plants ranging from annual to perennial, with many being climbing or possessing tendrils...

The Vitaceae family consists of climbing woody or herbaceous plants. They ascend using modified stems called tendrils, although a few genera lack tendrils. The tendrils and leaves are opposite. Leaves are alternate, simple, or compound. Simple leaves are often palmately lobed. Inflorescences are usually opposite the leaves. The flowers are...

The family Haloragaceae consists of terrestrial or aquatic perennial herbs or shrubs. Leaves are opposite, whorled, or alternate. Flowers are bisexual or unisexual. Stipules are absent. The calyx tube is fused to the ovary, and there are 2-4 petals, or sometimes none. There are 2-8 stamens. The ovary is inferior. The fruit is a nut or drupe...

The Crassulaceae family consists entirely of succulent herbs or shrubs, often with enlarged rhizomes or roots. The leaves are simple. The flowers are radially symmetrical, mostly hermaphroditic, but some genera are unisexual, monoecious, or dioecious. The calyx is somewhat fleshy, green (sometimes reddish)...

The family Saxifragaceae consists of herbaceous plants. Leaves are alternate or opposite, simple or compound. Most are deciduous, but some are evergreen. Stipules are present or absent. Inflorescences are cymose, sometimes racemes or panicles. Flowers are bisexual, dioecious, or dioecious, and radially symmetrical...

The family Grossulariaceae was previously classified under the Saxifragaceae family, but has been separated into the order Saxifragales. It consists of a single genus, Ribes, with approximately 150 species distributed in the temperate and subarctic regions of Eurasia, South America, and Northeast Africa. This article will discuss...

The family Iteaceae consists of evergreen to semi-evergreen (or deciduous) shrubs (or subshrubs, trees, or vines) (Flora of North America). The leaves are alternate, simple, spiny, petiolate, and the leaf blade margins are not lobed, but glandular and serrated (or entirely)...

The family Daphniphyllaceae consists of evergreen trees or shrubs. The leaves are densely arranged alternately at the tips of branches, narrowly oblong, and entire. The flowers are unisexual and dioecious, growing in axillary racemes. There are no petals, and the calyx has 3-6 sepals. There are 6-12 stamens. Because it has 2 carpels instead of 3, it is not related to Euphorbia...

The family Cercidiphyllaceae consists of deciduous trees. The leaves are simple and opposite. The flowers are small, lacking a perianth, and the family is dioecious (having separate male and female plants). Male flowers have very short stalks and are accompanied by four bracteoles, which are membranous and quickly deciduous. There are numerous stamens. Female flowers have somewhat elongated stalks, and the fruit is a follicle with a stalk...