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

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Stamens 8–10, twice as many as corolla lobes

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Flower <1.5 cm long

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Corolla lobes 4. Leaves whorled Erica

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Corolla lobes 5. Leaves alternate