Nyssaceae


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Nyssaceae

[nə′sās·ē‚ē]
(botany)
A family of dicotyledonous plants in the order Cornales characterized by perfect or unisexual flowers with imbricate petals, a solitary ovule in each locule, a unilocular ovary, and more stamens than petals.
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In my earlier review of dogwoods, I presented arguments against the recognition of Nyssaceae as a distinct family from Cornaceae (Eyde, 1988).
Morphological and paleobotanical studies of the Nyssaceae. I.
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Lee and Fairbrothers (1978), combining multifarious data with serological information, go so far as to suggest that the Rubiaceae is more closely related to the Cornaceae and Nyssaceae than to the Gentianales and Dipsacales.
A consensus classification for the order Gentianales with additional details on the suborder Apocynineae

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