NYCTAGINACEAE - 4'O'Clock Family
Herbs, shrubs or trees
Leaves opposite, simple, entire
Flowers bisexual,hypognyous, in cymose inflorescences, subtended by large
and consipiuous involucre which can be mistaken for the calyx, calyx corolla-like,
corolla absent
30 genera, 300 species
Economic uses: ornamentals such as Mirabilis
and Bougainvillea
Some members of Mirabilis have a reduced inflorescence of 1 flower
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