View source for Aristolochiaceae

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|accepted_name=Aristolochiaceae
|accepted_authority=Jussieu
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|common_names=Dutchman's-Pipe Family
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|hierarchy=Aristolochiaceae
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Aristolochiaceae]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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|treatment_page=page 44
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>or lianas [shrubs, rarely trees], deciduous or evergreen, often aromatic. <b>Wood</b> with broad medullary rays. <b>Leaves</b> alternate, simple, petiolate. <b>Leaf</b> blade unlobed, margins entire. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal or axillary, racemes or solitary flowers, rarely fan-shaped cymes. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual; calyx enlarged, petaloid, usually tubular, [1-,] 3-, [6-, rarely 5-]merous, lobes valvate; corolla usually reduced to scales or absent; stamens 5, 6, or 12 [multiples of 3 or 5], free or adnate to styles and stigmas, forming gynostemium; anthers extrorse; pistil 1, 4-6-carpellate; ovary inferior, partly inferior, or superior; placentation axile (and ovaries 4-6-locular) or parietal; ovules many per locule, anatropous. <b>Fruits</b> capsules [follicles], regularly to irregularly loculicidal, rarely indehiscent [septicidal]. <b>Seeds</b> often flattened; endosperm copious.</span><!--

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|distribution=Primarily pantropical and subtropical.
|discussion=<p>Genera 5, species ca. 600 (3 genera, 28 species in the flora).</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=duchartre1864a
|text=Duchartre, P. 1864. Aristolochiaceae. In: A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. de Candolle, eds. 1823-1873. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis.... 17 vols. Paris etc. Vol. 15, pp. 421-498.
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|id=gregory1956a
|text=Gregory, M. P. 1956. A phyletic rearrangement of the Aristolochiaceae. Amer. J. Bot. 43: 110-122.
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|id=schmidt1935a
|text=Schmidt, O. C. 1935. Aristolochiaceae. In: H. G. A. Engler et al., eds. 1924+. Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien..., ed. 2. 26+ vols. Leipzig and Berlin. Vol. 16b, pp. 202-242.
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|id=solereder-a
|text=Solereder, H. 1889b. Beiträge zur vergleichenden Anatomie der Aristolochiaceen. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 10: 410-523, tables 12-14.
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|id=solereder1889a
|text=Solereder, H. 1889. Aristolochiaceae. In: H. G. A. Engler and K. Prantl, eds. 1887-1915. Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien.... 254 fasc. Leipzig. Fasc. 35[III,1], pp. 264-273.
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==Key==
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|1
|Calyx bilaterally symmetric, usually bent or curved; ovary inferior; stems erect, twining, or procumbent.
|[[Aristolochia|Aristolochia]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Calyx radially symmetric, straight; ovary inferior, partly inferior, or superior; stems rhizomatous.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Sepals distinct; anthers each with prominent terminal appendage; styles connate in column; ovary inferior.
|[[Asarum|Asarum]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Sepals connate for most of length; anthers without terminal appendages; styles distinct (except sometimes at extreme base); ovary superior or ca. 1/3-inferior.
|[[Hexastylis|Hexastylis]]
|}
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name=Aristolochiaceae
|author=Kerry Barringer Alan T. Whittemore
|authority=Jussieu
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|synonyms=
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|family=Aristolochiaceae
|illustrator=John Myers
|distribution=Primarily pantropical and subtropical.
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