TAMARICACEAE

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1981, Flora Europaea. Volume 2. Rosaceae to Umbelliferae, Cambridge University Press : 292

CXIII. TAMARICACEAE 1

Shrubs or small trees. Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, usually ericoid. Flowers solitary or in spike-like racemes, hermaphrodite, actinomorphic. Sepals 4-5, free or slightly united at the base; petals 4-5, free; stamens 4 to numerous, free or partly united. Ovary superior, of 3-5 carpels; placentation parietal. Fruit a septicidal capsule; seeds numerous, with numerous long, unicellular hairs. 1 Flowers solitary; styles 5, filiform 1. Reaumuria 1 Flowers in racemes; styles 3, short, or stigma sessile on stylelike beak of ovary 2 Stamens free, or apparently united at the base by a horizontal,

fleshy disc; styles 3-4 2. Tamarix 2 Stamens united in a short tube by the expanded, vertical filament-bases; stigma sessile on style-like beak of ovary

3. Myricaria