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Cornaceae

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Cornaceae [kȯr′nās·ē‚ē]
(botany)
A family of dicotyledonous plants in the order Cornales characterized by perfect or unisexual flowers, a single ovule in each locule, as many stamens as petals, and opposite leaves.

Cornaceae 

(dogwood), a family of dicotyledonous plants. They are evergreen or deciduous trees and shrubs; they are rarely rhizomatous subshrubs. The leaves are simple, opposite or alternate, and usually exstipulate. The small regular flowers, which are generally tetramerous and bisexual, are gathered in clusters. The fruits are drupes or baccate. There are approximately 15 genera, with 110 species, distributed primarily in the temperate and subtropical regions of the northern hemisphere; they are also found in the arctic, southern Africa, Madagascar, New Zealand, the Fiji Islands, Brazil, and Chile. In the USSR there are three or four genera (13 species), including species of Aucuba and Cornus (such as bloodtwig dogwood). Several species of the family Cornaceae have valuable wood, which is used in the manufacture of small articles.

REFERENCE

Poiarkova, A. I. KizilovyeCornaceae Link. In Flora SSSR, vol. 17. Moscow-Leningrad. 1951.


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00 Hardcover QK375 This tenth volume in the series lists the morphology, ecology, and chorology of feral species and subspecies of 31 families of flowering plants in Siberia, from the family Geraniaceae to the family Cornaceae, arranged according to the Engler system.
FAMILY NAME Nyssa sylvatica and Nyssa aquatica of the Family Cornaceae, COMMON NAMES Black tupelo, water tupelo, gum, sour gum, bowl gum, pepperidge, stinkwood, wild peadree and yellow gum tree.
 
 
 
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