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Trees, sometimes tall, or shrubs, with strong odour of garlic. Leaves alternate, simple, with few roundish glands, elliptic, tip acuminate to cuspidate, base cuneate to obtuse, margin entire; stipules caducous. Flowers hermaphroditic, actinomorphic, hypogynous, in dense or few-flowered axillary cymes or solitary; sepals 5, valvate in bud, free or partly united, with glands on adaxial surface; petals 5, free, induplicate-valvate, with long simple hairs on adaxial side; stamens (8)10, of equal length, all fertile, free, apparently arranged in one whorl; anthers basi fixed, dithecal, inner pollen sacs smaller than outer ones, dehiscence lengthwise or by apical slits; gynoecium5-carpellate with terminal style and entire stigma; ovary unilocular; ovules solitary (Hua)or 5-6, basal, anatropous. Fruit capsular or indehiscent, 1(2)-seeded; seeds large, with a basal hilum; embryo straight; surrounded by copious endosperm.
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Bayer, C. (2007). Huaceae. In: Kubitzki, K. (eds) Flowering Plants · Eudicots. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, vol 9. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-32219-1_23
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