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Small trees or shrubs with usually scattered secretory cavities. Leaves simple, usually gland-dotted, spirally arranged or rarely opposite. Flowers solitary or in axillary cymes. Calyx with five lobes, imbricate or open. Corolla sympetalous, 5(4)-lobed, sometimes 2-labiate, lobes imbricate. Stamens 4, with the posterior stamen usually lacking or reduced to a staminode, rarely stamens 5, anthers with longitudinal slits. Ovary superior, with two fused carpels and a terminal style, 2- locular, rarely 4-locular, each locule with (1)2, anatropous, unitegmic ovules pendulous from near apex, or 4-8 superposed in pairs, or the locule subdivided into 4-10 uniovulate compartments. Fruit a drupe or separating into 1-seeded drupe-like segments or a loculicidal capsule, seeds with straight embryo, endosperm scanty or lacking. Four genera with ca. 330 species, most diverse in Australia, extending to the islands of the Pacific and Indian oceans; few species in tropical America, Hawaii, Caribbean, Japan.
See also Scrophulariaceae.
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Theisen, I., Fischer, E. (2004). Myoporaceae. In: Kadereit, J.W. (eds) Flowering Plants · Dicotyledons. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, vol 7. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18617-2_14
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