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|accepted_name=Bataceae
|accepted_authority=Martius ex Perleb
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|common_names=Saltwort Family
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|hierarchy=Bataceae
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Bataceae]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 184
|treatment_page=page 186
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="">Subshrubs;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="whole_organism growth form">(halophytic);</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="">spines absent;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="spine presence;spine pubescence">largely glabrous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="branch orientation;branch orientation"><b>Stems:</b> branches arching or prostrate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="branchlet orientation;branchlet orientation">branchlets drooping or erect.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="leaf arrangement;leaf architecture"><b>Leaves </b>(cauline), opposite, simple (each with a basal-abaxial appendage);</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="stipule duration">stipules caducous, (paired, minute);</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="petiole presence">petioles absent;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="margin architecture or shape">blade (succulent), margins entire.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="inflorescence position;inflorescence position;spike shape"><b>Inflorescences </b>axillary or terminal, conelike spikes (catkins) [lax and spikelike or solitary flowers].</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="flower reproduction;flower architecture;flower architecture;flower architecture"><b>Flowers </b>unisexual, staminate and pistillate on different plants [same plant in different inflorescences], actinomorphic;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="bract presence">bracts present.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="flower architecture;flower architecture or dehiscence;lobe quantity"><b>Staminate </b>flowers each initially enclosed in sac splitting into 2 lobes (spathella);</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="tepal quantity;tepal quantity;tepal fusion;tepal coloration;tepal variability;base shape">tepals 4 or 5, distinct, white, equal, base long-clawed [tapered];</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="androecium position">androecium hypogynous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s16" data-properties="nectary gland presence">nectary glands absent;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s17" data-properties="stamen quantity;stamen quantity;stamen arrangement;tepal length or size;tepal length or size">stamens 4 or 5, alternating with and longer than tepals;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s18" data-properties="filament fusion">filaments distinct;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s19" data-properties="anther dehiscence;slit dehiscence or orientation">anthers dehiscing by longitudinal slits.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s20" data-properties="flower architecture;flower architecture"><b>Pistillate </b>flowers bracteate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s21" data-properties="tepal presence">tepals absent;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s22" data-properties="pistil quantity;pistil architecture">pistil 1, 2-carpellate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s23" data-properties="">ovary falsely 4-loculed;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s24" data-properties="ovary architecture;ovary placentation">placentation basal-parietal;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s25" data-properties="ovule orientation;ovule architecture">ovules anatropous, bitegmic;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s26" data-properties="style presence">style absent;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s27" data-properties="stigma shape">stigmas 2-lobed.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s28" data-properties="fruit shape;syncarp architecture"><b>Fruits </b>drupaceous syncarps [drupes], ellipsoid.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s29" data-properties="seed quantity;seed size or width;seed shape"><b>Seeds </b>1–4, narrow, flattened.</span><!--

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|distribution=s North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;n South America;Pacific Islands (Galapagos Islands);Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Pacific Islands (s New Guinea);n Australia
|discussion=<p>Genus 1, species 2 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Bataceae are warm-temperate, subtropical, and tropical, coastal halophytes. Because of their proclivity to inhabit saline habitats and because of morphological similarities to halophytic members of Chenopodiaceae, early taxonomists tended to place Bataceae in the Chenopodiales (Centrospermae). The absence of betalains (T. J. Mabry and B. L. Turner 1964), dissimilarity of sieve-element plastid types (H.-D. Behnke and Turner 1971), and dissimilar chromosome numbers (P. Goldblatt 1976) rule out that relationship. Phylogeneticists now accept Bataceae as a member of Brassicales (Capparales) based on the presence of glucosinolates (Mabry 1976) and myrosinase, and molecular similarities (J. E. Rodman et al. 1998). In Brassicales, there are similarities to the Australian Gyrostemonaceae and Salvadoraceae (B. Prijanto 1970; S. Carlquist 1978; Rodman et al.).</p><!--
--><p>The fruits and seeds are water-dispersed. The succulent syncarps can float for one or two weeks before releasing the one-seeded pyrenes, which also can float up to three months before germinating after reaching land (H. B. Guppy 1903–1906, vol. 2).</p>
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|id=bayer2003b
|text=Bayer, C. and O. Appel. 2003. Bataceae. In: K. Kubitzki et al., eds. 1990+. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. 9+ vols. Berlin, etc. Vol. 5, pp. 30–32.
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|id=rogers1982b
|text=Rogers, G. K. 1982c. The Bataceae in the southeastern United States. J. Arnold Arbor. 63: 375–386.
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name=Bataceae
|author=Robert F. Thorne
|authority=Martius ex Perleb
|rank=family
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|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Bataceae
|illustrator=Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=s North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;n South America;Pacific Islands (Galapagos Islands);Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Pacific Islands (s New Guinea);n Australia
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|androecium position=hypogynous
|anther dehiscence=dehiscing
|base shape=long-clawed
|bract presence=absent
|branch orientation=prostrate;arching
|branchlet orientation=erect;drooping
|filament fusion=distinct
|flower architecture=bracteate;pistillate;staminate;actinomorphic;pistillate;staminate
|flower architecture or dehiscence=splitting
|flower reproduction=unisexual
|fruit shape=ellipsoid
|inflorescence position=terminal;axillary
|leaf architecture=simple
|leaf arrangement=opposite
|lobe quantity=2
|margin architecture or shape=entire
|nectary gland presence=absent
|ovary architecture=4-loculed
|ovary placentation=basal-parietal
|ovule architecture=bitegmic
|ovule orientation=anatropous
|petiole presence=absent
|pistil architecture=2-carpellate
|pistil quantity=1
|seed quantity=1;4
|seed shape=flattened
|seed size or width=narrow
|slit dehiscence or orientation=longitudinal
|spike shape=conelike
|spine presence=absent
|spine pubescence=glabrous
|stamen arrangement=alternating
|stamen quantity=5;4
|stigma shape=2-lobed
|stipule duration=caducous
|style presence=absent
|syncarp architecture=drupaceous
|tepal coloration=white
|tepal fusion=distinct
|tepal length or size=longer;longer
|tepal presence=absent
|tepal quantity=5;4
|tepal variability=equal
|whole_organism growth form=subshrub
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