Family: Celastraceae
Kingdom: Plantae Rank: Family Parent: Celastrales Status: Valid
Common Names:
- Celastraceae - English, United States of America
Vegetative Morphology
Habit: Trees or shrubs.
Main axis: Inner bark greenish around edge of trunk slash.
Leaves: Leaves simple, alternate; the margins entire to serrulate.
Stipules: Stipules small, caducous when present.
Reproductive Morphology
Inflorescence: Inflorescence axillary, fascicle, umbel, or sometimes solitary.
Flowers: Flowers unisexual or bisexual, 4-5-merous; sepals and petals imbricate or sometimes valvate; stamens in one series or sometimes two; nectary disk intrastaminal, conspicuous when present; ovary superior, carpels 2-5, the style 1 or 5, placentation axile.
Fruit: Fruit a loculicidal capsule or indehiscent drupe.
Seeds: Seeds one to numerous per fruit.