29) Oxalidaceae

30) Euphorbiaceae

31) Violaceae

32) Salicaceae
33) Fabaceae
(Leguminosae)

34) Rosaceae

Eurosids I
35) Ulmaceae

36) Cucurbitaceae

37) Fagaceae

38) Betulaceae
34) Rosaceae
• Rose Family
• Herbs, shrubs and trees; plants
sometimes armed with prickles,
spines, or thorns
• Leaves alternate, simple to
compound, with stipules
• Flowers usually showy and
actinomorphic; hypogynous,
perigynous or epigynous
• Hypanthium (floral disk) often
present, sometimes forming a floral
cup in a perigynous flower; fleshy
• Sepals 5, petals 5; stamens
numerous; carpels 1 to many, free or
fused; ovary superior or inferior
• Fruit various – follicle, achene,
pome, or drupe; single or aggregate
 Examples
Rosaceae

• Prunus (cherry, plum)

• Malus (apple, pear)
• Fragaria (strawberry)
• Potentilla (cinquefoil)
• Rubus (raspberry)
• Rosa (rose)
• Sorbus (mountain ash)
• Geum (avens – shown
here)
Spirea alba
Crataegus spp. – note the thorns
Crataegus submollis
 Malus – apple.
The flower is epigynous
with an inferior ovary.
The fruit is a pome and
the fleshy tissue is
accessory tissue
surrounding the “core.”
Fragaria
vesca
Fragaria virginiana
 Fragaria virginiana
Fragaria X ananassa fruit
The fruits are the achenes
on the surface of the fleshy
receptacle.
Prunus virginiana
Prunus padus
Prunus padus – fruit (drupe)
 Rosa rugosa
Flowers perigynous, fruits are
achenes in hypanthium “hip”
Rubus hispidus - fruits are drupelets
Potentilla simplex
35) Ulmaceae
• Elm Family
• Trees, rarely shrubs; Plagiotropic
stems, later orthotropic
• Leaves simple, margins serrate;
blade with asymmetrical base;
stipules present
• Flowers perfect or imperfect
(monoecious or dioecious)
• Tepals 4-9, separate to fused
• Stamens 4-9, opposite the tepals
• Fruit a two winged samara (Ulmus)
or a hard drupe (Celtis)
• [Celtis is now segregated in the
Celtidaceae; Ulmaceae is
paraphyletic if Celtis is included]
 Examples
Ulmaceae

• Ulmus (elm)
– Ulmus americana
– Ulmus rubra
– Ulmus alatus
• Celtis (sugarberry)
– Celtis occidentalis
Ulmus atlatus
Ulmus atlatus
Ulmus rubra
 Ulmus americana
The shape of the tree
results from branches
growing horizontally
(plagiotropic) at first,
later pulling into a
vertical (orthotropic)
orientation as tension
wood is produced on
the upper side of the
branch.
Ulmus americana
Ulmus americana
Ulmus rubra
Ulmus rubra
Celtis spp.
Celtis spp. sugarberry
Celtis spp. sugarberry
36) Cucurbitaceae
• Cucurbit Family
• Coarse, tendril-bearing vines; tendrils
borne laterally at nodes, possibly
modified shoots
• Epidermis with prickles
• Leaves alternate, simple, often
palmately lobed, serrate, teeth
cucurbitoid; stipules absent
• Flowers usually yellow, imperfect;
ovary inferior;
• Petals 5, connate (fused), bell-shaped
• Stamens 3-5, fused to each other and
to the hypanthium
• Fruit a berry or pepo (leathery or hard
rind)
 • Cucumis sativus (cucumber)
Examples • Cucurbita pepo (pumpkin)
Cucubitaceae
• Echinocystis spp. (wild spiny cucumber)
• Citrullus lanatus (watermelon)
Echinocystis lobata
Echinocystis lobata
Ritual pericarp mutilation
Citrullus lanatus
Citrullus lanatus