Fruit an achene, partially or totally enclosed within the persistent perianth, or a five-valved, beaked capsule with a persistent style, normally indehiscent, young fruits sometimes with glandular trichomes.
#Scorpioid cyme is diagnostic of what family free#
petals 5, connate into a tube or free, imbricate, clawed, often persistent stamens 5, mostly free ( Plumbago) or epipetalous at the base of the corolla ( Limonium Mill. ) opposite the petals, anthers 2-locular, dehiscent longitudinally ovary superior with 5 fused carpels, unilocular, styles 1-5, stigmas surmounting the ovary, placentation basal, ovule 1.
Flowers bisexual, 5- merous, actinomorphic, often heterostylous, floral nodes bracteolate, bracteoles (1-)2 sepals 5, connate, tube 5-10- lobed with spiky, glandular trichomes in Plumbago L. Inflorescences terminal, cymose, in broadly paniculate structures or scorpioid cymes bracts and bracteoles present. Leaves simple, alternate, spirally arranged, sometimes in basal rosettes, petiolate, membranous or leathery, margin entire or lobed, pinnately veined, glands level with or depressed below the surface exstipulate. Secretory glands exuding water, salt or mucilage often present, lepidote indumentum sometimes present.