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Scandent shrubs with sympodial branching and collateral axillary buds. Leaves spiral, simple, sub-3-5-pli-nerved, entire to coarsely dentate, estipulate, petioles pulvinate or not. Flowers in racemes or solitary, hypogynous, hermaphrodite (always?); pedicels with prophylls; petals well-developed, either distinct from sepals, or outer sepaloid tepals grading into inner petaloid ones; disk extra-staminal, persistent in fruit, or 0; stamens either in a single whorl of 6–13, or numerous and densely packed on torus; anthers (sub) basifixed, dehiscing longitudinally latero-introrse; ovary 1-locular, placentas parietal, 3 or 5, ovules epitropous, 2 or more per placenta. Fruit berry-like, indehiscent, with persistent style; seeds with fleshy or leathery exotesta, with chalazal arilloid (only Streptothamnus); endosperm copious, oily-proteinaceous; embryo minute.
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Kubitzki, K. (2007). Berberidopsidaceae. 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_7
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