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The Farasan Archipelago flora checklist
Zygophyllaceae
Nomenclature
SUMMARY
The family comprises of prostrate, perennial, biennial or annual herbs, shrubs or undershrubs, sometimes trees. Leaves opposite or alternate, stipulate, stipules persistent, usually pinnately compound or 1-3 foliolate or simple; leaflets flat, thin or succulent or terete, petiolate; stipules paired, persistent, often spinescent. Flowers solitary, axillary or subaxillary, or in cymes, rarely in spicate racemes, ebracteate, actinomorphic or zygomorphic, bisexual, rarely unisexual, hypogynous, pedicalled. Sepals (4-) 5, distinct, free or basally connate. Flower includes 5 petals, distinct or lacking, clawed, inserted on a disc, imbricate or convolute or rarely valvate; stamens 5-15 in 1-3 whorls of 5, often attached to a disc; filament often glandular or appendicular at the base; anther tetrasporangiate and dithecal, opening longitudinal slits. Ovary superior, 3 or 5 carpelled, 3 or 5 loculed; pistil 1; style 1; stigma simple. Fruit a loculicidal or a schizocarp, rarely a berry or drupe. Endosperm present or not.