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- Lecythidaceae -
Nomenclature
SUMMARY
Small to large trees. Leaves alternate, simple, exstipulate or with minute, caducous stipules, without pellucid punctations, often with cork warts. Flowers actinomorphic or zygomorphic; petals usually present (absent in subfamily Foetidioideae; stamens numerous, connate at base into staminal ring or scarcely connate in subfamily Foetidioideae), the ring actinomorphic or prolonged on one side into strap-like structure which arches over summit of ovary; intrastaminal disc present (some species of Barringtonia and Grias or absent (the remaining species); ovary inferior to half inferior. Fruits fibrous berries, dry drupes, or woody circumscissile capsules with one to many seeds. Seeds with or without cotyledons. X = 16, 17, or multiples of these numbers.