RANUNCULACEAE - Buttercup or Crowfoot's Family
Annual or perennial
herbs, few shrubs and vines
Leaves alternate and palmately divided,
petioles sheathing stem at base, no stipules
Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic or zygomorphic,
in a variety of inflorescences
Insect pollinated
Placentation marginal
Fruit a follicle, achene
or berry
Seed with minute embryo
Economic importance: ornamentals and
drugs (alkaloids)
50 genera, 1900 species
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