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Phyllonomaceae

Phyllonomaceae Small in Britt., N. Amer. Fl. 22(1): 2 (1905).Dulongiaceae J.G. Agardh (1858), nom. illeg.

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Terrestrial or rarely epiphytic shrubs or small trees, completely glabrous except for the stipules. Leaves alternate, petiolate, simple, acuminate, with entire or serrate or dentate margin; stipules small, with glandular hairs on the adaxial surface, caducous. Flowers small, bisexual, green, in epiphyllous inflorescences, actinomorphic, (4)5-merous. Sepals free or very slightly connate at base, persistent; petals free, valvate, late caducous to persistent; stamens free, alternating with the petals, persistent; anthers bilobed, dehiscing by lateral slits, pollen 3-colporate; flat nectary present on top of the ovary; ovary inferior, 2(3)-carpellate, syncarpous, unilocular with protruding parietal placentae; ovules 4–14, described as bitegmic but probably unitegmic, tenuinucellate; style bifid (trifid) or free to the base, recurved, stigmas small, terete. Fruit a small 3–10-seeded berry. Seeds small, with rugose or tuberculate testa, exarillate, endosperm fleshy, containing aleuron and oil; embryo straight, very small.

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Bittrich, V. (2016). Phyllonomaceae. 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_27

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