Flora of Zimbabwe: Cultivated plants
| Home | > | List of cultivated families | > | Platanaceae |
Platanaceae - Plane family
Byng, J.W. (2014) The Flowering Plants Handbook Plant Gateway Limited, Hertford, UK
Description of the family
Large moneocious trees; bark often flaking in plates. Leaves usually deciduous; simple, alternate (spiral), palmately lobed or unlobed; margins usually toothed; venation subpalmate. Stipules leaf-like encircling the stem. Inflorescences consisting of 1-7 dense spherical heads arranged in a raceme. Flowers unisexual; actinomorphic. Sepals basally fused or free. Petals reduced or absent. Ovary superior; carpels free. Fruit achene-like with tufts of hair, aggregated into dense heads. Worldwide: 1 genus and 8 species in the Northern hemisphere Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated genus and 2 cultivated taxa. |
|
Links to cultivated genera: View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this family
| Genus | Content |
| Platanus L. | Description, Image |
Other sources of information about Platanaceae:
External websites:
Google: Web - Images - ScholarGRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Platanaceae| Home | > | List of cultivated families | > | Platanaceae |