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Palmae (Arecaceae) includes common members such as date palm, coconut palm, and oil palm. They have a tropical distribution and are ecologically important where found. Members are perennial trees, herbs, or lianas with large leaves and flowers arranged in panicles, spikes, or cymes. Fruits are usually drupes. Palms have great economic importance as sources of fruits, fibers, oils, starch, and construction materials.
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APOCYNACEAE.pdf
Cosmopolitan, but most adundantly in tropical and subtropical region,
but a few are distributed in temperate regions.
Leaves-Simple, entire, opposite decussate or alternate (Thevetia) or in whorls of 3.
Flower: Bisexual, actinomorphic, bracteate, bracteolate,
pentamerous, hypogynous.
Stamens as many as corolla lobes, inserted at their throat and alternate with them.
Gynoecium: Usually bicarpellary. The ovaries are two in number, distinctly separate but with a common
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