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Trees or shrubs, rarely climbers; base of trunk straight, rarely with small buttresses; stem without latex or resin. Leaves usually evergreen, rarely deciduous, spirally arranged, rarely opposite or subopposite, simple, coriaceous to chartaceous, stipulate; plants dioecious. Flowers small, hypogynous, regular, unisexual by abortion, without disk, often 4–6-merous or up to 23-merous, in axillary cymose inflorescences, sometimes reduced to one flower. Sepals small, more or less connate at the base or rarely distinct; petals imbricate, mostly connate at the base, rarely free; stamens usually isomerous, alternating with the petals, and connate at the base. Carpels isomerous, united to form a superior ovary, with as many locules as carpels, each generally containing one ovule. Fruit a drupe, red, black, yellow, white, orange or purple, rarely green but mostly variously red, containing 1–6(−23) pyrenes. Seed small with abundant oily and proteinaceous endosperm, without starch.
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Loizeau, PA., Savolainen, V., Andrews, S., Barriera, G., Spichiger, R. (2016). Aquifoliaceae. In: Kadereit, J., Bittrich, V. (eds) Flowering Plants. Eudicots. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, vol 14. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28534-4_3
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