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Index of Plant Families (6 families in this page) |
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EBENACEAE
Gurke
( Ebony Family ) | Subfamalies: nil.
Family Description: Trees or shrubs; usually dioecious. Leaves simple, exstipulate, usually alternate. Flowers actinomorphic, usually 4- to 5- merous. Calyx often accrescent in fruit. Corolla sympetalous, urceolate-campanulate; lobes contorted. Male flowers with 14-24 stamens; female flowers with 8 staminodes. Ovary superior, 4- to 12- locular, with axile placentae. Fruit a large berry. |  |  | |  |
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L.f.
Main Synonym :
Diospyros chinensis | Kaki,
Japanese Persimmon,
Oriental Persimmon | Kaki | May-Jun |  | Normal Profile
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L.
Main Synonym :
No main synonyms for this taxon | Date-Plum,
Lotus Persimmon,
Lotus Tree | Maltese Name Not Known | May-Jul |  | Normal Profile
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ERICACEAE
Juss.
( Heath Family ) | Subfamalies: Enkianthoideae; Pyroloideae; Monotropoideae; Arbutoideae; Cassiopoideae; Ericoideae; Harrimanelloideae; Styphelioideae; Vaccinioideae
Family Description: Dwarf shrubs to small trees; leaves simple, exstipulate, usually evergreen. Flowers actinomorphic (rarely slightly zygomorphic), in racemes or umbels, or solitary or in clusters in the leaf-axils. Petals usually connate. Stamens twice as many as petals (rarely fewer), inserted on the receptacle or disc, but sometimes adnate to the extreme base of the corolla and falling with it; anthers usually opening by pores; pollen grains usually in tetrads. Ovary superior (rarely inferior); placentation axile; style single. Fruit a capsule, berry or drupe. | | | | |
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L.
Main Synonym :
No main synonyms for this taxon | Strawberry Tree,
Arbutus | Imbrijagla | Dec-Feb |  | Normal Profile
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L.
Main Synonym :
No main synonyms for this taxon | Mediterranean Heath,
Mediterranean Heather | Erika,
Leħjet Ix-xiħ,
Savina | Dec-Mar |  | Detailed Profile
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FRANKENIACEAE
S.F. Gray
( Sea Heath Family ) | Subfamalies: nil.
Family Description: Herbs or dwarf shrubs. Leaves opposite, entire, often ericoid; stipules absent. Flowers usually hermaphrodite. Sepals 4-6, connate for more than half their length. Petals 4-6, clawed, with a scale-like appendage on the claw. Stamens usually 6, in 2 whorls. Ovary superior, fertile only in the lower half, 1-locular; placentation parietal; ovules numerous. Capsule loculicidal. Seeds endospermous. | | | | |
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L.
Main Synonym :
Frankenia laevis var. hirsuta | Hairy Sea Heath | Erba Franka | Mar-Jul |  | Normal Profile
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L.
Main Synonym :
No main synonyms for this taxon | Sea Heath | Maltese Name Not Known | Mar-Jul |  | Normal Profile
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L.
Main Synonym :
No main synonyms for this taxon | Annual Sea Heath,
European Sea Heath | Maltese Name Not Known | Mar-Jul |  | Normal Profile
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PRIMULACEAE
Vent.
( Primrose Family ) | Subfamalies: nil.
Family Description: Herbs, rarely dwarf shrubs. Leaves exstipulate, usually simple. Flowers 5(to 7)-merous, actinomorphic (rarely zygomorphic), sympetalous. Stamens epipetalous, opposite the corolla-lobes; staminodes sometimes present. Ovary 1-locular, superior (rarely semi-inferior), with 1-numerous ovules and basal, free-central placenta; style simple. Fruit a capsule. | | | | |
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L.
Main Synonym :
Lysimachia arvensis | Scarlet Pimpernel,
Red Pimpernel,
Red Chickweed | Ħarira ħamra | Feb-Jul |  | Normal Profile
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Miller
Main Synonym :
Lysimachia foemina | Blue Pimpernel,
Poorman's Wetherglass | Ħarira Kaħla | Feb-Jul |  | Normal Profile
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L.
Main Synonym :
No main synonyms for this taxon | Brookweed,
Seaside Brookweed,
Water Pimpernel | Ħarira Tal-ilma | Mar-Sep |  | Normal Profile
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SALICACEAE
Mirbel
( Willow Family ) | Subfamalies: nil.
Family Description: Dioecious. Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, very rarely opposite; stipules present. Flowers subtended by bracts and arranged in catkins; perianth absent; glands present, sometimes nectariferous. Male flowers with 2 to many stamens; filaments filiform, free or more or less united. Female flowers with 1 unilocular carpel with 2-4 parietal placentae; ovules numerous, ascending, anatropous. Fruit a capsule dehiscing by 2-4 valves. Seeds numerous, very small, each with a tuft of long hairs. | | | | |
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Moench
Main Synonym :
Populus canadensis | White Poplar | Siġra Tal-Luq,
Luqa | Feb-Mar |  | Normal Profile
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L.
Main Synonym :
No main synonyms for this taxon | White Willow | Żafżafa Kbira,
Safsafa Kbira | Mar-Apr |  | Normal Profile
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Desfontaines
Main Synonym :
No main synonyms for this taxon | Mediterranean Willow | Żafżafa żgħira,
Safsafa żgħira | Jan-Feb |  | Normal Profile
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TAMARICACEAE
Link
( Tamarix Family ) | Subfamalies: nil.
Family Description: Shrubs or small trees. Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, usually ericoid. Flowers solitary or in spike-like racemes, hermaphrodite, actinomorphic. Sepals 4-5, free or slightly united at the base; petals 4-5, free; stamens 4 to numerous, free or partly united. Ovary superior, of 3-5 carpels; placentation parietal. Fruit a septicidal capsule; seeds numerous, with numerous long, unicellular hairs. | | | | |
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Poiret
Main Synonym :
Tamarix hispanica | African Tamarisk | Bruka | Jan-Mar |  | Normal Profile
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L.
Main Synonym :
Tamarix anglica | Common Tamarisk,
French Tamarisk | Bruka Franċiża | Apr-Jun |  | Normal Profile
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