ZYGOPHYLLACEAE
Morphological description
Prostrate herbs.
Leaves
Leaves pinnate, opposite, stipulate; usually anisophyllous.
Inflorescence
Inflorescence.
Flowers
Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic, 5-merous, sepals and petals free, stamens 10, petals yellow; ovary superior. Usually stamens unequal.
Fruit
Fruit spiny.
Seed
Seed.
Different from: Tiliaceae (Triumfetta): leaves simple, spiral.
Distribution: The family worldwide. In Malesia only Tribulus, locally common in the eastern part of Malesia, along sandy beach.
Notes: notes.
Literature: C.G.G. J. van Steenis, Fl. Males. I, 4 (1949) 64.
Spot characters (Van Balgooy): Tribulus 47, 49, 95.
Illustrations: Fig. 190. Tribulus cistoides L. (Zygophyllaceae). Flowering and fruiting branch. Reproduced from W.L. Wagner, S.H. Sohmer & D.R. Herbst, Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawai’i Vol. 2 (1990) 1341, pl. 197. With kind permission of the Bishop Museum Press.
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