| FAMILY & Clade |
Unifying features | Examples | Notes |
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| MYRTACEAE - Testable Angiosperm dicot |
Polystaminate many stamens with internal stipule, stamens most conspicuous in flower, aromatic oils in foliage eucalypt smell when crushed, fruit woody capsule or berry, hermaphroitic | ||
| PROTACEAE - Testable Angiosperm dicot |
Proteoid roots, phospherous sensitivity, leaves usually alternate and leathery, stamens joined to parianth segments many small flowers, usually ovary superior, fruit woody capsule or leathery drupe | ||
| CUNONIACEAE Angiosperm dicot |
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| RUBIACEAE - Testable Angiosperm dicot Coffee family |
Flowers actinomorphic, usually white or cream, sweetly scented, funnelform fused petals, rhizomatous, | ||
| LAMIACEAE - Testable Angiosperm dicot Mint family |
Square stems, leaves dicussate (alternate+opposite) usually aromatic, flowers labiate or bilabiate, zygomorphic | ||
| ROSACEAE - Testable Angiosperm dicot Rose family |
Alternate leaf arrangement, may be stipulate (leaf-like growth at base of petiole, flowers are perfect, actinomorphic, 5merous, fruit is usually a drupe, pome or aggregate, seeds are cyanophorms | ||
| ASTERACEAE - Testable Angiosperm dicot Aster family |
Capitulum inflorescence, mostly herbacious, fruit usually achene, otherwise burr or berry | ||
| RUTACEAE - Testable Citrus family |
Aromatic oils in leaves citrus smell when crushed, may have stellate hairs or scales, fruit is dry or a berry | ||
| FABACEAE Angiosperm dicot Pea / legume family |
Pod or legumous fruit, leaves often pinnate, zygomorphic flowers | ||
| sub. FABOIDEAE | Flowers zygomorphic, sepals 5 often connate, 10 stamens, superior ovary, "pea flower" | ||
| STRELITZIACEAE Angiosperm monocot |
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| SAPINDACEAE Angiosperm monocot |
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| ASPARAGACEAE Angiosperm monocot |
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| sub. AGAVOIDEAE | Rosette at end of woody stem | ||
| sub. LOMANDROIDEAE | |||
| CYCADACEAE Gymnosperm |
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| ASPHODELACEAE Angiosperm monocot |
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| sub. HEMEROCALLIDIODEAE | |||
| sub. XANTHORRHOEOIDEAE | |||
| DORYANTHACEAE Angiosperm monocot |
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| ELAEOCARPACEAE Angiosperm dicot |
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| AMARYLLDIACEAE Angiosperm monocot |
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| IRIDACEAE Angiosperm monocot |
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| AIZOACEAE Angiosperm dicot |
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| MALVACEAE Angiosperm dicot Mallow family |
5 seperate petals, staminal column | ||
| VITACEAE Angiosperm dicot |
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| SOLANACEAE Angiosperm dicot Nightshade family |
Alternate leaves, flowers 5-merous and fused | ||
| HYDRANGEACEAE Angiosperm dicot |
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| APOCYNACEAE Angiosperm dicot |
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| PTERIDACEAE Tracheosperm |
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| ASPLENIACEAE Tracheosperm |
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| CYCADACEAE Gymnosperm |
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| NYCTAGINACEAE Angiosperm dicot |
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| MORACEAE Angiosperm dicot |
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| OLEACEAE Angiosperm dicot |