RESEDACEAE - MIGNONETTE FAMILY
Scientific Description:
Annualtoperennialherbs, sometimeswoody. Leavesalternate. Stipulesminute, glandular. Flowerszygomorphic, in racemesorspikes. Sepals 4−8, free. Petals 4−10, free, in Turkey at leastthetwoposteriorusuallydeeplylaciniate. Stamensfewtomany, inserted on an eccentricdisc. Ovarysuperior, unilocularwith 3−7 carpels, usuallyopen at theapex. Fruitusually a gapingcapsule. Seedsreniformorsuborbicular.
Reference:
Davis PH (1965). Resedaceae, In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkeyandthe East AegeanIslands, Edinburgh UniversityPress, Edinburgh, 1: 498–499.
Public Description:
Resedaceae, commonly known as “mignonette family”, includes annual, biennial and perennial herbaceous rarely woody plants and is distributed in temperate to subtropical regions of the Europe, western Asia, the Middle East, East Asia, North America and South Africa.
References:
Anonymous 1 (2016). https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/search/?q=resedaceae/,Accessed date: 05.05.2016.
Anonymous 2 (2016).https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resedaceae./ ,Accesseddate: 05.05.2016.
