Family Euphorbiaceae

HABIT

Annual herb or shrub or perennial tree.

ROOT

Tap root and branches

STEM

Erect, cylindrical, branches, solid, woody, glabrous

LEAF

Simple, petiolate, exstipulate, alternative, lobed or serrate margin, reticulate veination

INFLORESCENCE

Cymose

FLOWER

Pedicellate, ebracteate, unisexual, incomplete male flower towards lower portion and female flower towards apical portion hypogynous actinomorphic.

MALE fLOWER

CALYX

5 sepals, polysepalous, valvate aestivation

COROLLA

Absent

ANDROECIUM

5 stamen, each stamen fuse with branched, dithecous, basifixed, introse

GYNOECIUM

Absent

FEMALE FLOWER

CALYX

3 sepals, polysepalous, valvate aestivation

COROLLA

Absent


ANDROECIUM

Absent

GYNOECIUM

Tricarpellary, syncarpous, trilocular, axile placentation, ovary Superior

FRUIT

Regma

FLORAL DIAGRAM