Apiaceae
1-Floral formula
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Here is the floral formula for the Apiaceae or Umbelliferae. The flowers may be perfect, but more often they are imperfect, and the plants are then monoecious, dioecious, or polygamous. The sepals are very tiny in the Apiaceae, the petals are often curved, the 5 stamens within a flower unfold at different times, the style bases enlarge to form the stylopodium that secretes nectar, and the ovary is inferior. |