Fumariaceae
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| Fumaria muralis | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae, eudicots |
| Order: | Ranunculales |
| Family: | Fumariaceae Bercht. & J.Presl (1820) |
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Fumariaceae (fumitory, fumewort, or bleeding-heart family; sometimes treated as subfamily Fumarioideae under family Papaveraceae) is a family of about 575 species of herbaceous plants in 20 genera, native to the Northern Hemisphere and South Africa.
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[edit] Description
[edit] Flower shape
Plants in the fumitory family are easily recognised by their peculiar flowers with two dissimilar pairs of petals. One or both of the outer petals is usually spurred, and the inner petals are connected at tip.
There are two types of flowers. A given genus has one type or the other. Dicentra has flowers with two planes of symmetry, and Corydalis has flowers with one plane of symmetry (zygomorphic).
[edit] Leaves
Most species have compound leaves.
[edit] Taxonomy
The APG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, of 1998), does not recognize this family, not as such. However, it does allow it to be segregated from the family Papaveraceae, as an optional segregate. APG II, in as far as it accepts this family, places it in the order Ranunculales, in the clade eudicots.
[edit] Genera
There are 20 genera:
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old-fashioned bleeding-heart (Dicentra or Lamprocapnos spectabilis)
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Pacific bleeding-heart (Dicentra formosa)
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yellow corydalis (Corydalis or Pseudofumaria lutea)
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rock harlequin (Corydalis or Capnoides sempervirens)
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golden eardrops (Dicentra or Ehrendorferia chrysantha)
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Hypecoum imberbe
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flesh-smoke (Sarcocapnos enneaphylla subsp. saetabensis)
[edit] External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Fumariaceae |
- Fumariaceae, Hypecoaceae in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). The families of flowering plants: descriptions, illustrations, identification, information retrieval. Version: 3 May 2006. http://delta-intkey.com.
- Flora of North America
- Flora of Pakistan
- Hypecoaceae of Mongolia in FloraGREIF
