View source for Cornaceae ← Cornaceae You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Cornaceae |accepted_authority=Berchtold & J. Presl |publications= |common_names=Dogwood Family |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Cornaceae |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cornaceae]]</div></div> |volume=Volume 12 |mention_page=page 458, 548 |treatment_page=page 443 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> shrubs, or trees, perennial, deciduous, synoecious [dioecious]; hairs unbranched or 2-armed (occasionally 1 arm absent). <b>Leaves</b> usually opposite, sometimes alternate, simple; stipules absent; petiole usually present, sometimes absent; blade margins entire; venation pinnate (eucamptodromous). <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary or terminal, cymes, umbels, or capitula. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual [unisexual]; perianth and androecium epigynous; hypanthium completely adnate to ovary; sepals 4(–5), distinct or slightly connate; petals 4(–5), distinct, valvate; nectary present, intrastaminal; stamens 4(–5), distinct, free; anthers dehiscing by longitudinal slits; pistil 1, [1–]2[–4]-carpellate, ovary inferior, [1–]2[–4]-locular, placentation apical; ovules 1 per locule, apotropous to epitropous; style 1; stigmas 2. <b>Fruits</b> drupes, rarely fused into a syncarp. <b>Seeds</b> 1(–2) per fruit.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=North America;Mexico;Central America;n;w South America;Eurasia;Africa;predominately northern boreal and temperate regions;also high elevations in subtropical and tropical regions. |discussion=<p>Genus 1, species ca. 60 (20 species in the flora).</p><!-- --><p>Delimitation of Cornaceae has varied over the years, with many treatments circumscribing the family broadly to include <i>Nyssa</i> and several small Asian genera along with <i>Cornus</i> (for example, Xiang Q. Y. et al. 1998). DNA sequence data from intensive taxon sampling support narrower circumscription, with <i>Cornus</i> as the sole member of the family and sister to the Asian Alangiaceae de Candolle (Xiang et al. 2011); that treatment is followed here. <i>Aucuba</i>, sometimes included in Cornaceae, is here placed in Garryaceae.</p> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Cornaceae |author=Zack E. Murrell;Derick B. Poindexter |authority=Berchtold & J. Presl |rank=family |parent rank= |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Cornaceae |illustrator=Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey |illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association |distribution=North America;Mexico;Central America;n;w South America;Eurasia;Africa;predominately northern boreal and temperate regions;also high elevations in subtropical and tropical regions. |reference=None |publication title= |publication year= |special status= |source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_517.xml }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]] Templates used on this page: Cornaceae Illustrations (view source) Template:Cornaceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Return to Cornaceae.