Description

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Growth Form: Trees or shrubs.

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Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Blades chartaceous to strongly coriaceous. Margins entire. Pinnately veined. Petiolate. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in paniculate, racemose, or capitellate inflorescences. Flowers bisexual (perfect), small, usually aromatic, actinomorphic. Tepals 6, outer whorl often smaller than inner whorl, usually arranged in whorls of 3, usually white, greenish white, or yellow, rarely reddish, deciduous or persistent in fruit. Fertile stamens 9 or 6 (the 2 outer whorls), usually with long, slender filaments, staminodia conspicuous; filaments of Stamens of third whorl often with 2 stalked or sessile glands at base; anthers tetrathecal or rarely dithecal opening by valves or small pores. Ovary superior, 1-celled; ovule 1, anatropous; stigma capitate to disciform or lobed, occasionally decurrent on style.

Fruit: Fruit on a naked pedicel or; more often; with persistent tepals at base; but never with a cupule. Seeds without endosperm.

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