1. the coffee family
Aloc. Caguimbal. Macarasig. Tuibeo

2. Para maalala natin...
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3. Plant Habit and Habitat
Leaves
Inflorescence
Flower
Corolla
Calyx
Gynoecium
Androecium
Placentation
Fruit
Seeds
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4.  Habitat
 Terrestrial, rarely aquatic
 Habit
 Tree, shrub, herb, liana
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5.  Simple
 Entire margin
 Decussate, rarely whorled
 Usually connate stipules
 Often bearing mucilage secreting
colleters
 Colleters – produces mucilagenous
compounds to protect young shoot
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6.  Cyme
 Umbel
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7.  Bisexual
 Actinomorphic
 Epigynous
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8.  Synsepalous; 4-5 lobes
 Or sometimes absent
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9.  Sympetalous; 4-5 [rarely 3 or 8-10] lobes
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10.  Syncarpous
 Inferior ovary
 Anatropous to hemitropous
 Unitegmic
 With funicular orburator
 1-many per carpel
 Nectaries present as disk atop ovary
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11.  Anthers
 Longitudinal in dehiscence
 Stamens
 4-5[rarely 3 or 8-10]
 Alternipetalous & epipetalous
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12.  Axile
 Rarely parietal
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13.  Berry
 Capsule
 Drupe
 Schizocarp
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14.  Endospermous
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15.  Worldwide distribution but more in tropical areas
 Economic importance:
 Cinchona- source of quinine used to treat
malaria
 Coffea arabica - source of coffee
 Pausinystalia johimbe- source of sexual stimulant
(yohimbine)
 Timber trees
 Fruiting plants
 Dye plants
 Ornamental cultivar

16.  Trees, shrubs, lianas, or herbs
 Simple, entire, usually decussate leaves
 Connate stipules, often with mucilage-secreting colleters
 Inflorescence usually a cyme
 Flowers usually bisexual
 Perianth dichlamydeous, 4-5 merous, calyx absent in some
 Androecium often 4 5-merous
 Ovary usually inferior (rarely superior)
 Often with an apical nectariferous disk, ovules with a funicular
obturator,
 Fruit either a berry, capsule, drupe, or schizocarp.
K (4-5) [0] C (4-5) [(3,8-10)] A 4-5 [3,8-10] G (2) [(3-5+)], usually inferior,
rarely superior.