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Trees, shrubs, subshrubs or herbs with woody subterranean trunks. Leaves deciduous, alternate, palmatisect, palmatilobed or subentire-reniform, glabrous or pubescent. Inflorescence a terminal, very rarely axillary, thyrsoid, sometimes produced near ground level. Flowers yellow, large and showy, hermaphroditic, hypogynous, actinomorphic or zygomorphic. Sepals 5, free, imbricate or contorted. Petals 5, free, contorted in bud, alternating with sepals. Stamens numerous, free; filaments evenly distributed or in 5 or 2 fascicles; anthers dithecous, with 1 or 2 apical and sometimes also with 2 small basal pores. Ovary superior, sessile, 3–5-carpellate, 1- or incompletely 3-celled; style elongate; placentation central at base and parietal above; ovules anatropous. Capsule 3–5-merous, 1- or 3-celled, the valves of the loculicidal woody exocarp alternating with and separating from the septicidal, membranaceous endocarp. Seeds large, cochleate, reniform or globose; glabrous, pilose, or with brush-like or cotton-like hairs; testa adhering or crustaceous and easily removable; endosperm without starch.
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Poppendieck, HH. (2003). Cochlospermaceae. In: Kubitzki, K., Bayer, C. (eds) Flowering Plants · Dicotyledons. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, vol 5. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-07255-4_16
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