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Caryophyllaceae

4-Cyme inflorescence

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The basic inflorescence in the Caryophyllaceae is a cyme, as seen here in Saponaria officinalis, bouncing bet.

Photograph by K.R. Robertson and D. L. Nickrent of plants growing in Champaign, Illinois.

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