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- Group 1Lycophytes, Monilophytes
- Group 2Gymnosperms
- Group 3Monocots
- Group 4Woody angiosperms with opposite or whorled leaves
- Group 5Woody angiosperms with alternate leaves
- Group 6Herbaceous angiosperms with inferior ovaries
- Group 7Herbaceous angiosperms with superior ovaries and zygomorphic flowers
- Group 8Herbaceous angiosperms with superior ovaries, actinomorphic flowers, and 2 or more distinct carpels
- Group 9Herbaceous angiosperms with superior ovaries, actinomorphic flowers, connate petals, and a solitary carpel or 2 or more connate carpels
- Group 10Herbaceous angiosperms with superior ovaries, actinomorphic flowers, distinct petals or the petals lacking, and 2 or more connate carpels
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- Geraniaceae
Geraniaceae
See list of 2 genera in this family-
1a. Leaf blades pinnately lobed or pinnately divided [Fig. 670]; stamens 10 per flower but the outer series of filaments sterile and lacking anthers; seeds smooth (though usually pubescent); carpel beaks separating from the style column, dehiscing from apex to base, the free portions of the carpel beaks becoming spirally coiled; carpel beaks pubescent on the adaxial (i.e., inner) surface
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1b. Leaf blades palmately lobed or palmately divided; stamens 10 per flower, all fertile (except G. pusillum with 3–5 sterile filaments); seeds reticulate or striate (smooth in 2 species); carpel beaks remaining partially adnate to the style column, dehiscing from base to apex [Fig. 672], the free portions of the carpel beaks merely outwardly curving; carpel beaks glabrous or nearly so on the adaxial surface
Show photos of: Each photo represents one genus in this family.