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Cunoniaceae

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Trees, shrubs, occasionally hemiepiphytic or strangling (some Weinmannia); hairs generally simple, sometimes trichomes stellate and peltate, long, stiff and irritating in Davidsonia; bark usually grey to light brown; fissures longitudinal; stems commonly with lenticels. Leaves evergreen, winter deciduous in Eucryphia glutinosa; opposite-decussate in pairs or sometimes 3 or 4 leaves per node (spiral in Davidsonia); imparipinnate, trifoliolate, palmately compound, or unifoliolate, pinnately veined, stipellate or not, firm, often coriaceous; leaf margins toothed, often glandular-serrate, sometimes entire; venation craspedodromous, semicraspedodromous, occasionally brochidodromous or reticulodromous (some Eucryphia); small tuft or pocket domatia along midvein sometimes present; stipules often conspicuous, often interpetiolar. Inflorescences terminal, axillary, sometimes cauliflorous, paniculate, thrysoid or cymose and with straight peduncle, or capitate, rarely flowers solidarity and axillary; bracts usually stipulate; flowers often with prophylls; pedicels present or sometimes 0.

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