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Polygonaceae is a family of flowering plants also known as the "knotweed family" or "smartweed family". The name is based on the genus Polygonum . Some well known members include Fagopyrum (buckw...
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Pages in category "Polygonaceae" ... The family Polygonaceae, also known as the knotweed family or smartweed family, are a group of dicots comprising about 50 genera and 1120 species of herbs, shrubs and small trees. Members include buckwheat, sorrel (but not wood sorrel), rhubarb, and knotgrass.
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The Polygonaceae are herbs, shrubs, or rarely trees comprising about 30 genera and 1,000 species. The leaves are simple, alternate or rarely opposite, and usually stipulate. The membranous, sheathing stipule is called an ocrea.
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Monophyly of Polygonaceae is well supported by molecular studies (M. W. Chase et al. 1993; P. Cuénoud et al. 2002; A. S. Lamb Frye and K. A. Kron 2003), which place it sister to Plumbaginaceae.
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Herbs, shrubs, or small trees, sometimes monoecious or dioecious. Stems erect, prostrate, twining, or scandent, often with swollen nodes, striate, grooved, or prickly. Leaves simple, alternate, rarely opposite or whorled, ... About 50 genera and 1120 species: worldwide, ... All Chinese genera belong to the Polygonoideae,
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Description of Polygonaceae Juss., generated from a DELTA database. ... The Families of Flowering Plants ... Leaves well developed (usually), or much reduced. Plants with roots. With a basal aggregation of leaves (often), or with neither basal nor terminal aggregations of leaves. Self supporting, or climbing; when climbing,
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Members of the Polygonaceae Family are mostly herbaceous - including the two species of cultivated buckwheat. The infloresences (flower heads) are conspicuous, but the actual flowers are very tiny, and with no petals.
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POLYGONACEAE (PDF File)
1 Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 20 Nanxincun, Xiangshan, Beijing 100093, People’s Republic of China. ... POLYGONACEAE; 13b. Stems erect; tepals not enlarged in fruit, rarely enlarged, becoming fleshy. 15a. Achenes trigonous, much longer than or rarely equaling persistent perianth ......... 6. Fagopyrum;
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Polygonaceae A.L. Jussieu ... Number of genera: 45 genera. ... Ronse DeCraene, L.P., S.-P. Hong, & E. Smets. 2000. Systematic significance of fruit morphology and anatomy in tribes Persicarieae and Polygoneae (Polygonaceae). Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 134:301–337.
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Polygonaceae; June 14, 2003 ... The Polygonaceae includes many herbs, a number of shrubs, and a few trees. It is a medium-sized family, with 30 genera and 750 species, most of which occur in the north temperate region of the world. We have 31 native species in northern Utah, most being species of Eriogonum.
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