SCHISANDRACEAE
Morphological description
Monoecious lianas.
Leaves
Leaves simple, alternate, usually denticulate, penninerved, exstipulate.
Inflorescence
Flowers usually solitary and axillary.
Flowers
Flowers tepals free, imbricate. Usually carpels and stamens many.
Fruit
Fruit a berry. Usually berries red, fused into a head.
Seed
Seed.
Different from: Magnoliaceae: never climbing. - Annonaceae: leaf margin entire, stem on cross section with stellate rays.
Distribution: A family of 2 genera confined to Southeast Asia, incl. Malesia, with one species of Schisandra in North America.
Notes: Kadsura scandens is used medicinally.
Literature: M.K. Saunders, Fl. Males. I, 13 (1997) 185-207.
Spot characters (Van Balgooy): Kadsura 5, 59, 70, 96 - Schisandra 5, 59, 96.
Illustrations: Fig. 159. Kadsura scandens (Blume) Blume (Schisandraceae). Flowering branch; enlarged gynoecium, androecium, and fruit. Reproduced from Flora Malesiana I, 13 (1997) 200, fig. 1a, b, d, f.
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