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Small to large trees; rarely shrubs; axis with cortical vascular bundles. Leaves alternate, simple, margins usually entire (opposite and clustered in one species of Abdulmajidia), pinnately nerved; stipules absent or minute and caducous. Inflorescences terminal, axillary or cauline, simple racemes, panicles with 2 or 3 orders of racemose or spicate branches or fascicles. Flowers actinomorphic or zygomorphic, hermaphrodite; sepals 2–6 or rarely unlobed; petals 3–6(8), infrequently 12 or 18, imbricate, free (absent in Foetidia); stamens numerous, 10–1210, connate at base into a short or long staminal ring (free to base in Foetidia), the ring actinomorphic or prolonged on one side into a strap-like structure which arches over the summit of the ovary; anthers bilocular, latrorse, introrse or rarely poricidal; ovary inferior or semi-inferior, usually 2-, 3-, 4- or 6-locular, with 2–115 anatropous ovules in each loculus, the axile placenta at the apex, base or throughout the length of the locule; ovules bitegmic, tenuinucellate; style short or more rarely long, undivided. Fruits indehiscent, then dry, fleshy or woody or dehiscent by a circumscissile operculum, then woody, sometimes very large; seeds exotestal/mesotestal, winged (Cariniana and Couroupita) or without wings in remaining genera; endosperm lacking or very scanty; arils present or absent; embryos undifferentiated or with fleshy plano-convex or foliaceous cotyledons.
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Prance, G.T., Mori, S.A. (2004). Lecythidaceae. In: Kubitzki, K. (eds) Flowering Plants · Dicotyledons. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, vol 6. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-07257-8_24
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