Description

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Growth Form: Trees, evergreen, with latex; monoecious.

Stems: Stems pubescent.

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Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate, distichous. Margins entire or sometimes serrate. Veins pinnate. Stipules small, adnate to petiole, caducous.

Flowers: Male inflorescences discoid, fleshy, many-flowered, without interfloral bracteoles, pedunculate. Involucral bracts imbricate, persistent in fruit. Female inflorescences 1-flowered, sessile or pedunculate. Male flowers: shortly pedicellate; calyx lobes (3 or)4, spatulate, fleshy, apically concave; stamens 3-8, straight in bud, included; pistillode absent. Female flowers: usually solitary in a pear-shaped receptacle, covered by numerous bracts, without sepals; ovary enclosed in involucre and adnate to receptacle; style subuliform, 2-branched, curved, exserted, pubescent.

Fruit: Fruit partly immersed in fleshy receptacle; fleshy; bracts persistent. Seeds with hard exoseed coat; cotyledons fleshy; equal in size; embryo ± globose; radicle small.

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