Vegetative key to the families
Vegetative Key Vegetative key to the families
WOODY PLANT(usually shrubs) with leaves with PARALLEL VENATION (Fig. 26). Leaves alternate or spirally arranged, often crowded, rigid, ericoid, often sharp-pointed; the margins usually entire but sometimes denticulate; stipules absent Ericaceae
Stamens 8–10, twice as many as corolla lobes
Flowers ≥1.5 cm long Rhododendron
Flower <1.5 cm long