ONAGRACEAE
Morphological description
Herbaceous usually. Sometimes plants with spongy white roots (Ludwigia adscendens).
Leaves
Leaves simple, usually spiral, stipules minute or absent. Leaves partly opposite sometimes (Epilobium).
Inflorescence
Inflorescence.
Flowers
Flower hermaphrodite, usually 4-merous, stamens iso- or dimerous; ovary inferior.
Fruit
Fruit capsular, seeds numerous.
Seed
Seed sometimes comose (Epilobium).
Different from: other.
Distribution: The family worldwide. Native genera in Malesia: - Epilobium (worldwide), in Malesia chiefly alpine; - Ludwigia (worldwide), lowland, mostly marshy habitats.
Notes: Several species of Fuchsia* are planted as ornamentals.
Literature: . H. Raven, Fl. Males. I, 8 (1977) 98-113.
Spot characters (Van Balgooy): Onagraceae 79, 83, 92 - Ludwigia octovalvis 69.
Illustrations: Fig. 124. Epilobium hooglandii Raven (Onagraceae). Habit. Reproduced from Blumea 15 (1967) 276, fig. 2a. Fig. 125. Ludwigia hyssopifolia (G. Don) Exell (Onagraceae). Habit in flower. Reproduced from Flora Malesiana I, 8 (1977) 105. Fig. 126. Ludwigia repens (L.) Sw. (Onagraceae). Reproduced from C.A. Backer, Weed Flora of Javanese Sugar-cane fields, Atlas pt 14 (1940) t. 443. 161
Image in PhytoImages for Onagraceae