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Bedstraw or Madder family |
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| FORM Herbs and shrubs
Distribution tropics Genera 500 Species 6000 in our area 52 (Gray); 49 (B&B)43 Flowers with 4 or 5 fused sepals and 4 or 5 petals fused into a funnel-shaped corolla. Fruits berries, drupes or capsules. Leaves entire, opposite or in whorls. #Parts 4-5 fused sepals, 4-5 fused petals, stamens alternate with corolla lobes. Symmetry radial Leaves Simple entire, opposite or in whorls of 3 - 8. Stipules are similar in size and shape to the leaves. Important ornamental and economic species, gardenia, coffee and quinine. In our area herbaceous species bedstraw, bluets and partridgeberry. |
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