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Trees; leaves alternate, imparipinnate, leaflets entire or serrate; stipules small or reduced; inflorescences axillary or terminal, simple racemes or paniculate, bracts minute or lacking; flowers actinomorphic or somewhat zygomorphic, hermaphroditic; receptacle cupular; sepals 5, imbricate; petals 5, longer than sepals, clawed or slightly constricted at base, contorted or imbricate with the innermost smaller than the others; stamens 8–10, distinct, inserted at or near base of receptacular cup, filaments pubescent at base, anthers tetrasporangiate, dorsi- to sub-basifixed, versatile; ovary sessile, surrounded by cupular tube, syncarpous, 3-locular, pubescent, placentation axile, ovules 2 per locule, pendulous, bitegmic; style simple, slender; fruit capsular, loculicidal, leathery, pubescent, few-seeded; seeds broadly ellipsoid, endosperm copious to reduced, embryo straight, cotyledons thick.
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Bayer, C., Appel, O. (2003). Akaniaceae. 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_8
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