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Small to medium-sized tree. Leaves spiral, leathery, large, simple, obovate; blade entire with widely spaced serrulations; petioles with narrow, lateral wings; stipules united on the adaxial side of petiole to form a distally toothed, intrapetiolar structure. Flowers large, solitary, axillary, pentamerous, hypogynous and bisexual; sepals 8–10, imbricate, gradually increasing in size from outer to inner; petals 5(6), imbricate; stamens 5+5; filaments thick; anthers dorsi fixed, tetrasporangiate, thecae separate in the lower third of anther, latrorse, opening by slits; disk intrastaminal, thickened, lobed; carpels 4–7, laterally united throughout with the stylar portions congenitally into a single, twisted style with a slightly lobed stigma; ovules anatropous, bitegmic, crassinucellate, pendant on lateral placenta, usually 1 per locule; endosperm cellular. Fruit indehiscent, fibrous, with persistent styleandcalyx; seedswith arudimentaryarilon funicle, a thin layer of endosperm and a straight, dicotyledonous embryo.
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Dickison, W.C. (2007). Strasburgeriaceae. 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_50
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