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Thorny shrubs or small trees with indumentum of minute, 1-cellular hairs; myrosin cells present but glucosinolates apparently lacking. Leaves minute (1.5–2.2 mm long), alternate, scale-like, estipulate, early deciduous, on chlorophyllous, rigid, interlocking twigs terminating in sharp thorns. Inflorescences very short, axillary, umbel-like racemes with minute bracts. Flowers hermaphroditic; sepals 4(5), imbricate, free; petals 4(5), imbricate, free, slightly clawed; stamens 8(-10); filaments flat, with a surficial nectariferous appendage at the base of each; anthers deeply bilobed, slightly apiculate, dorsifixed, opening length-wise, antesepalous introrse, antepetalous latrorse; nectary disk absent; gynoecium syncarpous of 2(3) carpels; style subulate, with minute, slightly bilobed, persistent stigma; ovary on short gynophore, 2-locular, with many ovules per locule from a thick, axile placenta. Fruits subglobose berries with 1 seed in each locule or 1 seed in 1 locule; seeds black, hard, circinate, with curved embryo and scanty endosperm. x = 11.
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Kubitzki, K. (2003). Koeberliniaceae. 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_26
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