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Low shrubs, often nodding to prostrate, glabrous or glabrescent; dioecious (Batis maritima L.) or monoecious (Batis argillicola van Royen). Leaves decussate, simple, obovoid or linear, succulent, sessile; stipules minute, caducous. Flowers in condensed cone-like catkins or in lax spike-like inflorescences, subtended by bracts, (sub)sessile. Male flowers with a sheath that splits into 2 lobes; petals 4, long-clawed; stamens 4, alternipetalous, exceeding petals; anthers dorsifixed, versatile, tetrasporangiate, longitudinally dehiscent; gynoecium rudimentary or absent. Female flowers naked, without staminodia, solitary or fused with adjacent flowers; ovary 2-carpellate, 4-locular; stigma (sub)sessile, 2-lobed, flat, papillose, persistent; ovules anatropous, 1 per locule, epitropous, bitegmic, crassinucellate. Fruit a drupe (B. argillicola) or a drupaceous syncarp (B. maritima), each drupe containing 4 pyrenes; endocarp woody, seed coat thin; seeds exalbuminous; embryo almost straight.
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Bayer, C., Appel, O. (2003). Bataceae. In: Kubitzki, K., Bayer, C. (eds) Flowering Plants · Dicotyledons. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, vol 5. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-07255-4_11
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