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Tall trees to shrubs, Al-accumulating; hairs, when present, simple or stellate. Leaves opposite or verticillate, simple, entire; venation brochidodromous or eucamptodromous; stipules usually present, often modified into glands or associated with extra floral nectaries. Inflorescences thyrses (panicles of cincinni), cincinni, or racemes, terminal or axillary. Flowers with prophylls, bisexual, strongly zygomorphic, hypogynous or epigynous; calyx 5-merous, connate at base, often unequal, the largest one usually spurred; petals 1, 3, or 5, rarely 0, free, clawed, white, yellow, pink, or purple, caducous; stamen 1, anther dorsi fixed or basi fixed, commonly sagittate, longitudinally dehiscent; staminodes 0–4; ovary 1-or 3-locular; style simple; stigma terminal or lateral; ovules 1- many per locule; placentation axile or apical. Fruit a loculicidal capsule or samaroid, 4–5-winged by the unequally enlarged and persistent calyx-lobes. Seeds 1-several, exalbuminous, often winged and hairy; testa chartaceous;embryo straight.
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Kawasaki, M.L. (2007). Vochysiaceae. 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_55
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