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Diversity: 25 genera and
about 200 species as treated by Cronquist but some include the Fumariaceae.
Distribution: Temperate
northern hemisphere, both Old World and New with - 4 genera with 12 species
in Texas.
Floral structure:
flower often large and showy
with crumpled petals, ovary a unilocular compound pistil
Significant features:
syncarpous herbs with, caducous
(early falling, often at anthesis) sepals, leaf blades often basal (some
taxa scapose) and pinnately divided.
Most elements of the family express a milky or colored latex derived from
specialized cells (laticifers).
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