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Leucosidea sericea is a member of the Rosaceae, also known as the rose family.Although this family is very large and economically important worldwide, it is poorly represented in Africa generally and in southern Africa in particular.
Rosaceae generally have five sepals, five petals, and many spirally arranged stamens. The bases of the sepals, petals, and stamens are fused together to form a characteristic cup-like structure called a hypanthium. They can be arranged in spikes, or heads. Solitary flowers are rare.
There are approximatively 100–160 genera and 3,500–4,000 species in the family Rosaceae. Plants of the World Online currently accepts 108 genera. [1
The species grow to between 0.5–2 m (1.6–6.6 ft) tall, with interrupted pinnate leaves, and tiny yellow flowers borne on a single (usually unbranched) spike. Agrimonia species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including grizzled skipper (recorded on A. eupatoria) and large grizzled skipper.
Physocarpus capitatus is a dense deciduous shrub growing to 1–2.5 metres (3 + 1 ⁄ 2 –8 feet) tall. The reddish-gray bark, which is flaky and peels away in many irregular thin layers.
The short-stemmed flowers appear from June to September, in long, spike-like, racemose inflorescences. The single flower has an urn-shaped curved flower cup, the upper edge has several rows of soft, curved hook-shaped bristles, 1–4 mm (0.039–0.157 in) long. The hermaphrodite flower has fivefold radial symmetry. There are five sepals present .
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Vauquelinia, commonly known as the rosewoods, is a genus of the rose family, Rosaceae. It consists of two species of shrubs found in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico . The genus was named for French chemist Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763-1829).