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Styracaceae

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Flowering Plants · Dicotyledons

Part of the book series: The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants ((FAMILIES GENERA,volume 6))

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Evergreen or deciduous trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple, pinnately nerved, petiolate, exstipulate. Plants with stellate or peltate trichomes. Inflorescences terminal and/or axillary cymes, racemes, or panicles, or sometimes 1–2-flowered, usually bracteolate. Flowers bisexual or rarely female in gynodioecious species, actinomorphic, with hypanthium adnate to ovary wall at various levels, usually pendent; calyx synsepalous, truncate or 4–5(−9)-toothed, teeth valvate or open in bud; corolla sympetalous, (4)5(−8)-lobed or -parted, imbricate or subinduplicate-valvate in bud, generally campanulate to open with the lobes spreading to reflexed; stamens usually twice, rarely up to four times or equal the number of corolla lobes, uniseriate, replaced by 5 staminodes in female flowers; filaments usually flattened at least at the base, adnate to the corolla, sometimes forming a tube distally; anthers basifixed, introrse, tetrasporangiate, longitudinally dehiscent, oblong to linear, the connective roughly equal to or surpassing the thecae; ovary 2–4(5)-carpellate, 2–4(5)-septate at the base but usually 1-locular through the distal attenuation of the septa, partly to completely inferior, with essentially axile placentation; style filiform, usually hollow; stigma terminal, truncate or minutely lobed; ovules (1-)4–9(-ca. 30) per carpel, anatropous, unitegmic or bitegmic, tenuinucellate. Fruits mostly dry and usually capsular with loculicidal dehiscence, or indehiscent and sometimes samaroid, or drupaceous, with persistent calyx. Seeds 1–4(-ca. 50), ±globose to fusiform, rarely winged; testa brown, thin to indurate; cotyledons flattened or nearly terete; endosperm copious, oily.

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Fritsch, P.W. (2004). Styracaceae. 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_45

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