3-19 Caprifoliaceae, honeysuckle family

Marian C. Munro; Ruth E. Newell; Nicholas M. Hill

Authors

Marian C. Munro Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, NS
Ruth E. Newell E. C. Smith Herbarium, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia
Nicholas M. Hill Fernhill Institute, Kentville, Nova Scotia; Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia and Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Keywords:

Magnoliophyte, honeysuckle family, dicots, honeysuckle, twinflower, woodbine, elderberries, elder, snowberry, waxberry, horse-gentian, feverwort

Abstract

Honeysuckles and related genera total about 400 species, and are woody vines, trees or shrubs. Most are boreal or north-temperate plants with simple, opposite leaves although some have pinnately compound leaves. Inflorescence is a cyme or cymose and the flowers are 3–5-merous. The calyx is constricted beneath the limb. Corolla is regular or irregular, sympetalous with stamens attached to its tube. Ovary is wholly or partly inferior, carpels 3–5 with more than one locule. Styles may be sessile on the ovary. If style is absent, then the stigma is sessile. Ornamentals in this family include snowberry, honeysuckle and highbush-cranberry. Photographs were provided by by Martin Thomas, Sean Blaney, Mark Elderkin, Marian Munro, David Mazerolle, Ross Hall.

Author Biographies

Marian C. Munro, Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, NS

Curator of Botany (NSPM)

Ruth E. Newell, E. C. Smith Herbarium, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia

Curator of the E. C. Smith Herbarium (ACAD)

Nicholas M. Hill, Fernhill Institute, Kentville, Nova Scotia; Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia and Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Director; Adjunct Professor