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Juglandaceae - Walnut family
Bailey, L.H. (1949) Manual of Cultivated Plants Revised edition. Macmillan, New York.
Description of the family
Monoecious trees. Leaves alternate, pinnate. Stipules 0. Male inflorescences pendulous, sometimes branched, catkins; female flowers solitary or several together in bracteate inflorescence. Male flowers: stamens 3-many; perianth zygomorphic. Female flowers: calyx 4-lobed, adnate to the inferior ovary; stigmas 2-4-branched. Fruit usually a drupe with a husk containing a large 2-4-lobed seed. Worldwide: 8 genera and 63 species in temperate and warm northern hemisphere to South America and Malesia Zimbabwe: 1 genus and 1 taxon. |
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Juglandaceae
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Tropicos: Juglandaceae
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