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Erythroxylaceae

Erythroxylaceae Kunth in H.B.K., Nov. Gen. Sp. 5, ed. 4: 175, ed. f: 153 (1822), nom. cons.

Nectaropetalaceae Exell & Mendonça (1951).

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Flowering Plants. Eudicots

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Glabrous trees or shrubs, evergreen or deciduous, sap sometimes milky or coloured; alkaloids common. Leaves alternate (opposite), simple, entire, pinnately veined, with intrapetiolar (interpetiolar), often caducous stipules, colleters present. Flowers small, generally bisexual, more rarely unisexual, distylous [Erythroxylum], axillary, solitary or in fascicles, rarely in pedunculate subumbelliform cymes. Calyx (4)5-lobed, persistent, lobes valvate or imbricate in bud; petals (4)5, distinct, imbricate in bud, often shortly clawed, early caducous, mostly with a ligular bilobed appendage near the base; stamens 10(–12), biseriate, filaments connate at the base into a cup or tube, generally persistent; anthers basifixed, tetrasporangiate, longitudinally dehiscent; ovary superior, 2–3(–4)-carpellate, all or only one of the locules fertile, bearing 1(2) pendulous crassinucellate ovules; stylodia distinct or a single style. Fruit a monospermous drupe (a 2- or 3-seeded capsule). Seeds with starchy endosperm (absent), embryo straight, aril absent (present).

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Bittrich, V. (2014). Erythroxylaceae. In: Kubitzki, K. (eds) Flowering Plants. Eudicots. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, vol 11. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39417-1_9

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