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Trees or shrubs; nodes trilacunar. Leaves alternate, simple, entire, pinnately veined, petiolate or sessile; leaf bases decurrent; stipules wanting. Inflorescences axillary, pedunculate, umbelliform or compactly corymbiform racemes; flowers 4- or 5-merous throughout, small, with 2 persistent or caducous prophylls inserted directly below the sepals; sepals distinct, imbricate, with numerous scattered pits near the middle of the upper surface; petals distinct, imbricate, not much if at all longer than the sepals; filaments applanate, shortly connate at base; anthers tetrasporangiate, introrse, dehiscing by longitudinal slits; gynoecium syncarpous, 4–5-carpellate; ovary 4–5-locular, capped by a terminal style with a punctate or minutely lobed stigma; ovules solitary in each locule, axile-basal, anatropous, bitegmic, tenuinucellate. Fruit a 4–5-seeded coriaceous berry; seeds relatively large, with copious endosperm surrounding a straight, basal embryo; hypocotyl much longer than cotyledons.
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Kubitzki, K. (2004). Tetrameristaceae. 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_48
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