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Dipterocarpaceae

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Flowering Plants · Dicotyledons

Part of the book series: The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants ((FAMILIES GENERA,volume 5))

Abstract

Resinous, usually evergreen hermaphrodite trees, usually buttressed. Some or most parts with a tomentum of fascicled hairs, or sometimes single hairs, unicellular or multicellular glandular hairs, or multicellular, lobed or peltate hairs. Leaves alternate, spiral or distichous, simple, margin entire or sinuate, terminating ± abruptly at the petiole, penninerved, generally with extrafloral nectaries on upper surface when young, often with domatia in axils between nerves and midrib or along midrib and (rarely) nerves; tertiary nerves scalariform or reticulate, petiole more or less prominently geniculate, grooved on the adaxial side. Stipules paired, large or small, persistent or fugacious, leaving small to amplexicaul scars. Inflorescence terminal or axillary, paniculate, racemose, rarely cymose, pendant; ± regularly, rarely irregularly, branched; bracts small or large, persistent or fugacious. Flowers secund or distichous, bisexual, actinomorphic, scented, nodding.

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Ashton, P.S. (2003). Dipterocarpaceae. 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_20

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