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Dioecious trees or shrubs, rarely xylopodious. Leaves spiral, imparipinnate, estipulate; leaflets alternate or opposite, petioluled. Inflorescences long, slender, arching or pendulous, rarely erect thyrses or racemes, terminal or axillary. Flowers small, regular, unisexual, 3-5(6)-merous; sepals persistent, basally connate, the lobes imbricate or valvate; petals frail, sometimes 0 in male flowers, reduced and imbricate in female flowers; stamens as many as and alternate with sepals, sometimes on a column, wanting or reduced to staminodia in female flowers; gynoecium 2-3-carpellate, syncarpous, borne on small disk or gynophore, rudimentary or 0 in male flowers; ovary 1-3-locular; ovules 2 per locule, epitropous or apotropous, borne apically and pendulous, or basal, the ovules then erect; stylodia short, strongly recurved, ventrally papillose. Fruit a berry or a compressed samaroid capsule with persistent calyx and style branches; seed planoconvex to narrowly ellipsoidal; testa membranaceous; endosperm 0.
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Kubitzki, K. (2007). Picramniaceae. 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_39
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