Botany General
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2. 7. Casuarinaceae Casuarina equisetifolia L. - Leaves reduced to scales forming a collar at joints of branchlets; male flowers at tip of branchlets, female flowers at base of branchlets; fruit a cone. 8. Chenopodiaceae -Flowers perfect, calyx 5, leaves entire or lobed ...........................................Chenopodium leaves mealy.......C. sandwichmeum Moq. deltoid leaves mealy lanceolate.........C. album L. Flowers unisexual (monoecious or dioecious) ............................................Atriplex semibaccatus R. Br. 9. Combretaceae Terminalia catappa L. A small to large tree with branches which are horizontal and arranged in tiers bearing large rosettes of thick, shiny, blunt, short-stemmed leaves. 6-12" long; fruit l-2" long, green to yellow; wood reddish. 10. Compositae (ld) A. Herbs......B. B. Flower heads with each floret rayed having a strap shaped extension of the corolla); leaves alternate; stem leafy, basal leaves, long stemmed, with a few deep lobes ...................Sonchus oleraceus L. BB. Flower heads with outermost florets having rays, inner florets tubular......C. C. Leaves alternate, at least upper ones...D D. Flower bracts overlapping, leaves white wooly or hairy, narrow triangular, flowers yellow or orange........Verbesina DD. Flower bracts in one or two equal rows flowers white........Erigeron CC. Leaves opposite; plants prostrate; flower heads solitary at branch tip, florets yellow; thick leaves...............Lipochaeta integrifolia (Nutt.) Gray CCC. Plants erect; ray florets yellow...Syndrella nodiflora (I) Gaert.