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The Humiriaceae consists exclusively of woody tropical plants that are mainly large trees and a few smaller shrubs or sprawling shrubs in rocky places. In some of the larger trees, buttresses may occur.
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Prance, G.T. (2021). Morphology of Humiriaceae. In: Humiriaceae. Flora Neotropica, vol 123. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82359-7_9
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