Onagraceae

Onagraceae (onagraceae, in Spanish) is a family of generally herbaceous plants.

Description

They have simple leaves, without stipules, alternate or opposite. The family is characterized by flowers with 4 sepals and petals in some genera (for example, fuchsias), the sepals are as colored as the petals, so it gives the impression that they have double the number of these, they are hermaphrodite, actinomorphic or slightly zygomorphic, usually tetramerous (on the peninsula) or dimerous, inferous, with 2-4 carpels and a tubular hypanthus, androecium with 8 (or 4+4) stamens. Fruit capsule, berry, or indehiscent dry, more or less elongated; the presence of a tuft of hairs on the seed is characteristic.

This family includes some 650 species of herbs, shrubs, and trees in 20 to 24 genera spread widely across all continents, ranging from boreal to tropical regions.

Fuchsia magellanica

Genres