Heliotropiaceae are a cosmopolitan family of flowering plants with approximately 450 species worldwide, though it is concentrated especially in the tropics and subtropics.
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Heliotropiaceae are a cosmopolitan family of flowering plants with approximately 450 species worldwide, though it is concentrated especially in the tropics and subtropics.
== Description == In broad terms, members of the Heliotropiaceae are quite diverse in that they can be small trees, lianas, shrubs, sub-shrubs, or even perennial or annual herbs. However they all have 5-merous, tetracyclic flowers and actinomorphic corollas. These plants are also characterized by their terminal styles and highly modified stigmatic heads (basal stigma, infertile apex) as well as by their fruits (one or two-seeded mericarpids or drupes). Their conical stigmatic heads are unique and are thus a recognizable synapomorphy for this family. Heliotropiaceae mostly have distinctly scorpioid cymose inflorescences.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).