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Trees, glabrous or with an indumentum of long simple hairs. Leaves alternate, simple, entire, basal veins prominent or (Soyauxia) not so; petiole present, pulvinate; stipules intrapetiolar, almost amplexicaul, enclosing vegetative buds, caducous or (Soyauxia) free. Flowers in axillary, elongated or condensed racemes, pedicellate, actinomorphic, hermaphroditic, hypogynous, scented; sepals 4–7, free, imbricate; petals 5 (Soyauxia), otherwise 0; corona short, entire (Soyauxia); stamens numerous, distinct or fused at the base; anthers bisporangiate or (Soyauxia) tetrasporangiate, opening by a longitudinal slit or lateral flaps; disk intrastaminal, in Peridiscus enclosing more than half of the ovary; gynoecium syncarpous, 3-4(5)-carpellate; ovary unilocular, free or partly sunken into the disk, glabrous or pubescent, in Soyauxia with a central column; stylodia distinct, ending in subulate stigmatic tips; ovules usually 6-8, pendulous from the top of the locule. Fruits drupaceous or (Soyauxia) capsular, 1-seeded; endosperm abundant, horny; embryo small.
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Bayer, C. (2007). Peridiscaceae. 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_38
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