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Tremandraceae (from the genus Tremandra, which is from the Latin tremble and the Greek male, probably in allusion to the anthers). Tremandra Family. Fig. 32. Shrubs or sub-shrubs, with opposite, whorled or alternate leaves: flowers bisexual, regular; sepals 4-5, rarely 3, valvate; petals of the same number as the sepals and alternating with them, colored, entire, separate induplicate-valvate; stamens 8 or 10, rarely 6, hypogynous, in 1 or 2 whorls; anthers opening by a transverse terminal valve, or more or less prolonged into a beak with terminal pores; ovary superior, 2-celled; style 1; stigma 1: fruit a capsule; seeds 1 or 2 in each cavity.
In this family are 3 genera and about 23 species, of which 20 belong to the genus Tetratheca. All are native of south and west Australia. The family is very similar to the Polygalaceae, and separated from that family only by the regular flowers. Platytheca is remarkable in having the four anther cells all in one plane.
Two genera are in the American trade, both tender heath-like plants: Platytheca, and Tetratheca.
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==References==
*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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