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Annual herbs covered with glandular and eglandular trichomes; root a secondarily thickened taproot with fibrous secondary roots; stems branched, non-woody, fibrous. Leaves basal, rosulate, alternate, exstipulate, obovate-spathulate, entire; scape bracts (stem leaves) leaf-like, alternate, deeply palmately 5–7-lobed, lobes minutely toothed. Inflorescences axillary, scapose, branched, short-lived, erect. Flowers numerous in terminal dichasia, hermaphrodite, minute; perianth actinomorphic, perigynous; sepals 5, shortly connate basally, valvate, adnate to the basal third of the ovary, persistent, densely hairy; petals 5, free, rotate, white, imbricate in bud; stamens 5, alternipetalous, perigynous; filaments free; anthers dorsifixed, 2-thecate, 4-sporangiate, introrse, opening by lateral slits; gynoecium of two united carpels; ovary half-inferior, hairy, laterally compressed 1,2-locular with axile placentation; ovules single in each locule, sub-basally attached, erect, campylotropous, unitegmic, tenuinucellate with a well-developed endothelium; stylodia two, shortly fused basally, terminal, filiform-tapering, recurved, stigma minutely capitate, papillate. Fruit a hairy, laterally compressed, loculicidal, cartilaginous capsule. Seeds small, ovoid-turbinate, brown, finely reticulate-sculptured, exarillate at maturity; endosperm hard, copious, non-starchy, oily; embryo small, linear.
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Conran, J.G., Macfarlane, T.D. (2016). Eremosynaceae. In: Kadereit, J., Bittrich, V. (eds) Flowering Plants. Eudicots. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, vol 14. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28534-4_13
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