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Evergreen dioecious trees to 15 m high. Hairs small, peltate. Leaves alternate, petiolate, entire, estipulate. Inflorescences axillary, pedunculate, simple or compound spike-like racemes or depauperate panicles. Flowers small, apetalous; males: subtended by 0-2 scales, stamens 2, with connate filaments, anthers basifixed, extrorse, dithecal, tetrasporangiate, longitudinally dehiscent; females: paired, solitary or in triads, each subtended by a bract and a minute abaxial scale, monocarpellate with an adaxial suture and a large, truncate or obliquely decurrent bilobate stigma, stylodium very short or 0, ovule solitary, hemianatropous. Fruit a sulcate, indehiscent drupe with vestigial stigma at the apex; seed solitary; endosperm 0; embryo with thick cotyledons.
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Köhler, E. (2007). Didymelaceae. In: Kubitzki, K. (eds) Flowering Plants · Eudicots. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, vol 9. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-32219-1_16
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