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Shrubs or trees with aromatic bark and ethereal oil cells in parenchymatous tissue; evergreen or deciduous; hairs unicellular; leaves opposite, simple, entire; stipules absent; flowers solitary, or in few-flowered terminal inflorescences, perfect, perigynous, with a cup-shaped or urceolate receptacle; all floral phyllomes arranged in a continuous spiral; perianth of 15–40 petaloid tepals spirally attached to the outside of the receptacle; stamens 5–30, inserted on the rim of the receptacle; filaments short or absent; pollen sacs 2, abaxial, extrorse, opening by longitudinal slits; connectives prolonged beyond the pollen sacs; staminodes numerous, lining the inner surface of the receptacle; gynoecium of one to few or of many free carpels; ovule solitary, basal, anatropous, crassinucellar, bitegmic, sometimes a second, upper, aborting ovule present in each carpel. Fruit or fruits indehiscent, dry, enclosed in the receptacle; seeds poisonous, exalbuminous; cotyledons 2–4, massive, or spirally twisted.
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Kubitzki, K. (1993). Calycanthaceae. In: Kubitzki, K., Rohwer, J.G., Bittrich, V. (eds) Flowering Plants · Dicotyledons. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, vol 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02899-5_18
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