Description

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Growth Form: Monoecious, deciduous or evergreen trees.

Stems: Branches pubescent with stellate or simple hairs with watery sap.

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Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Surfaces pubescent with stellate or simple hairs. Margins entire or palmately lobed. Long-petiolate. Stipules present but quickly deciduous.

Flowers: Flowers in terminal paniculate cymes. Flowers unisexual. Calyx 2–3-lobed, hood-like in bud, rupturing irregularly along the valves at anthesis. Corolla of 5 petals, imbricate or contorted. Stamens in staminate flower 8–10(–20), connate; anthers usually introrse and pistillate flower Stamens absent. Ovary superior (pistillate flowers), (2)3–5-celled; ovules 1 per cell; styles distinct, bifid. Staminate flower ovary absent.

Fruit: Fruit drupaceous; dehiscent or indehiscent. Seeds 1 per cell; seed coat thick and woody.

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