Family: Hippocrateaceae
Kingdom: Plantae Rank: Family Parent: Celastrales Status: Valid
Common Names:
- Hippocrateaceae - English, United States of America
Vegetative Morphology
Habit: Lianas, scandent shrubs, or small trees.
Leaves: Leaves simple, opposite, the secondary and tertiary venation sometimes inconspicuous.
Reproductive Morphology
Inflorescence: Inflorescence usually axillary or ramiflorous, corymbose, thyrsoid, paniculate, or fasciculate on short peduncles with minute bracts.
Flowers: Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic; sepals 5, fused at base, sometimes unequal; petals 5, free; nectary disk present as a ring or short tube, or divided to form 3 pockets; stamens 3, inserted within nectary disk; ovary superior, 3-locular, the placentation axile.
Fruit: Fruit a capsule or berry.
Seeds: Seeds few to many per fruit, winged in capsules and embedded in pulp in berries.