Lacistemataceae is a small
flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants th ...
family. There are two genera:
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Lacistema
''Lacistema'' is a genus of Lacistemataceae
Lacistemataceae is a small flowering plant family. There are two genera:
*'' Lacistema'' (12 species)
*'' Lozania'' (5 species)
They are small trees (to 15 metres tall) and shrubs (to 5 metres t ...
'' (12 species)
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Lozania
''Lozania'' is a genus of Lacistemataceae
Lacistemataceae is a small flowering plant family. There are two genera:
*'' Lacistema'' (12 species)
*'' Lozania'' (5 species)
They are small trees (to 15 metres tall) and shrubs (to 5 metres tal ...
'' (5 species)
They are small trees (to 15 metres tall) and shrubs (to 5 metres tall) that are native to the subtropical and tropical regions of the Americas (also known as the
Neotropics
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone.
Definition
In bioge ...
).
The leaves are on alternate sides of the stem and maybe surrounded by a pair of
stipules.
The
Inflorescence
An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a Plant stem, stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphology (biology), Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of sperma ...
located between the leaf and the stem (axil) are either
catkins
A catkin or ament is a slim, cylindrical flower cluster (a spike), with inconspicuous or no petals, usually wind-pollinated (anemophilous) but sometimes insect-pollinated (as in ''Salix''). They contain many, usually unisexual flowers, arranged c ...
(in
Lacistema) or
racemes
A raceme ( or ) or racemoid is an unbranched, indeterminate type of inflorescence bearing flowers having short floral stalks along the shoots that bear the flowers. The oldest flowers grow close to the base and new flowers are produced as the s ...
(in
Lozania).
Each flower (mostly bisexual) approximately one millimetre in length consist of a disc with attached bract (in Lacistema) and sepals (in Lozania). Attached to the disc is a single stamen divided into two anthers, the single superior ovary has a single style with three stigmas.
The fruit is a capsule that splits on drying into three parts and contains one seed surrounded by an aril.
References
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Malpighiales families