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Aristolochiaceae
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Kerry Barringer
Alan T. Whittemore in Flora of North America (vol. 3)
Herbs or lianas [shrubs, rarely trees], deciduous or evergreen, often aromatic. Wood with broad medullary rays. Leaves alternate, simple, petiolate. Leaf blade unlobed, margins entire. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, racemes or solitary flowers, rarely fan-shaped cymes. Flowers bisexual; calyx enlarged, petaloid, usually tubular, [1-,] 3-, [6-, rarely 5-]merous, lobes valvate; corolla usually reduced to scales or absent; stamens 5, 6, or 12 [multiples of 3 or 5], free or adnate to styles and stigmas, forming gynostemium; anthers extrorse; pistil 1, 4-6-carpellate; ovary inferior, partly inferior, or superior; placentation axile (and ovaries 4-6-locular) or parietal; ovules many per locule, anatropous. Fruits capsules [follicles], regularly to irregularly loculicidal, rarely indehiscent [septicidal]. Seeds often flattened; endosperm copious.
Species within inventory project:
UF CONSERVATION AREAS
Aristolochia acuminata
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Aristolochia argentina
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Aristolochia bicolor
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Aristolochia clematitis
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Aristolochia contorta
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Aristolochia elegans
Aristolochia fimbriata
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Aristolochia gigantea
Aristolochia grandiflora
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Aristolochia labiata
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Aristolochia maxima
Aristolochia pentandra
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Aristolochia ridicula
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Aristolochia ringens
Aristolochia serpentaria
Aristolochia tomentosa
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Aristolochia trilobata
Asarum arifolium
Asarum canadense
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Asarum europaeum
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Asarum maximum
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Asarum virginicum
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Endodeca serpentaria
Hexastylis arifolia
Hexastylis virginica
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Isotrema arborea
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Isotrema tomentosum
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This project made possible through support from the UF Planning, Design & Construction and the UF Office of Sustainability
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