RESEDACEAE

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1964, Flora Europaea - Volume 1. Lycopodiaceae to Platanaceae, Cambridge University Press : 346

LXIX. RESEDACEAE 1

Annual to perennial herbs, rarely woody, with alternate, simple or pinnatifid leaves. Flowers in terminal, bracteate racemes or spikes. Sepals 4-8; petals 4-8, free, entire or laciniate; stamens 7-25, inserted on a hypogynous or perigynous, often excentric disc. Carpels 3-7, superior, free and uniovulate or united into a unilocular ovary which is open above, with numerous ovules on parietal placentae. Fruit a capsule open at the top or consisting of 4-7 1 -seeded, radiating carpels. Seeds suborbicular or reniform, without endosperm.

Fruit a unilocular capsule with numerous seeds 1. Reseda Fruit of 4-7, ± free, stellate-patent, 1 -seeded carpels 2. Sesamoides