This document summarizes the characteristics of the coffee family. It describes their habitat as terrestrial or rarely aquatic. Their growth form can be trees, shrubs, herbs, or lianas. Their leaves are simple with entire margins and often in a decussate pattern. Their inflorescences are typically cymes or umbels. Their flowers are usually bisexual, epigynous and 4-5 merous. Their fruits vary and can be berries, capsules, drupes or schizocarps.

1. the coffee family
Aloc. Caguimbal. Macarasig. Tuibeo

2. Para maalala natin...
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3. Plant Habit and Habitat
Leaves
Inflorescence
Flower
Corolla
Calyx
Gynoecium
Androecium
Placentation
Fruit
Seeds
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4.  Habitat
 Terrestrial, rarely aquatic
 Habit
 Tree, shrub, herb, liana
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5.  Simple
 Entire margin
 Decussate, rarely whorled
 Usually connate stipules
 Often bearing mucilage secreting
colleters
 Colleters – produces mucilagenous
compounds to protect young shoot
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6.  Cyme
 Umbel
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7.  Bisexual
 Actinomorphic
 Epigynous
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8.  Synsepalous; 4-5 lobes
 Or sometimes absent
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9.  Sympetalous; 4-5 [rarely 3 or 8-10] lobes
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10.  Syncarpous
 Inferior ovary
 Anatropous to hemitropous
 Unitegmic
 With funicular orburator
 1-many per carpel
 Nectaries present as disk atop ovary
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11.  Anthers
 Longitudinal in dehiscence
 Stamens
 4-5[rarely 3 or 8-10]
 Alternipetalous & epipetalous
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12.  Axile
 Rarely parietal
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13.  Berry
 Capsule
 Drupe
 Schizocarp
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14.  Endospermous
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15.  Worldwide distribution but more in tropical areas
 Economic importance:
 Cinchona- source of quinine used to treat
malaria
 Coffea arabica - source of coffee
 Pausinystalia johimbe- source of sexual stimulant
(yohimbine)
 Timber trees
 Fruiting plants
 Dye plants
 Ornamental cultivar

16.  Trees, shrubs, lianas, or herbs
 Simple, entire, usually decussate leaves
 Connate stipules, often with mucilage-secreting colleters
 Inflorescence usually a cyme
 Flowers usually bisexual
 Perianth dichlamydeous, 4-5 merous, calyx absent in some
 Androecium often 4 5-merous
 Ovary usually inferior (rarely superior)
 Often with an apical nectariferous disk, ovules with a funicular
obturator,
 Fruit either a berry, capsule, drupe, or schizocarp.
K (4-5) [0] C (4-5) [(3,8-10)] A 4-5 [3,8-10] G (2) [(3-5+)], usually inferior,
rarely superior.