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List of Names
Lecythidaceae
Grias L.
Nomenclature
SUMMARY
Understorey to canopy trees, pachycaul growth form. Leaves clustered at branch ends on stout twigs, large-sized (35-170 cm long), glabrous to very sparsely puberulous in G. multinervia; secondary venation reticulate. Inflorescences cauline or infrequently axillary (e.g., G. colombiana), fasciculate or racemose, growth of rachises determinate. Flowers present with leaves, actinomorphic, fleshy; sepals absent (then calyx entire or irregularly split) or 4 (only in G. neuberthii); petals 4, flat at apices; androecium a narrow, fleshy tube, the stamens on slanted margen of tube, curved inward, but not reflexed as in Allantoma, the anthers laterally dehiscent; 4-locular, ovules 2-4 per locule, pendent, attached to septum at apex of locule; style lacking or very short, without stylar collar. Fruit indehiscent, dropping to ground at maturity, fusiform or ovoid, the pericarp soft at maturity, thick. Seeds not winged, one per fruit, fusiform, not flattened, not embedded in pulp (i.e., seeds easily removed from pulp), the testa glabrous; funicle inconspicuous, straight and white, or expanded, yellow and contorted; cotyledons absent; embryo macropodial.