Fragaria L., Sp. Pl. 1: 494. 1753.; Gen. Pl. 218. 1754; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 2: 342-345. 1879; Chaulan et. al., Fl. China @ eFloras. org 9: 335; Landrein et al., Fl. Pak. @ eFloras.org p.12; Fl. North Amer. @ eFloras.org vol. 9.

Perennial herbs, acaulescent, short rhizomatous, often stoloniferous and forming plantlets, usually spreading or appressed-pubescent. Leaves mostly radical, alternate petiolate, stipulate, stipules persistent, adnate to the base of petiole, often membranous, sheathing; leaf blade 3-foliate, or pinnately 5-foliate, venation pinnate, abaxial surface sericeous, at least along veins. Inflorescence erect, terminal, cymose or cymbiform, few-flowered (1-10), flowers rarely solitary, bracts and bracteoles present. Flowers bisexual, sometimes unisexual on polygamo-dioecious plants, pedicellate. Hypanthium obconic, turbinate, flattened to slightly concave or saucer-like. Epicalyx 5-lobed, alternating with and smaller than sepals. Sepals 5, valvate, spreading, broadly lanceolate, persistent. Petals 5, white, rarely yellow, broadly obovate or suborbicular, base clawed. Stamens numerous, anthers bithecous. Carpels numerous, apocarpous, borne on a convex receptacle, ovule 1, epitrpous (ovule ascending from middle of locule), style short, persistent or deciduous. Fruit aggregate, a glandetum, formed from enlarged receptacle, berry-like, long conic to globose, fleshy, red, wine red, carmine, rarely white; sepals persistent, spreading, reflexed or clasping fruit. Achenes numerous, brownish, seated in pits on surface of glandetum, minute, brittle. Seed testa membranous.

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