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Dioecious, rarely polygamodioecious trees. Leaves evergreen, petiolate, alternate, serrate; stipules subulate, encircling the stem, caducous. Staminate inflorescences spike-like thyrses; flowers in cymules of 1–3, cymules arranged in trimerous whorls along the inflorescence axis, each cymule subtended by a bract; perianth lacking; stamens 8–10; anthers tetrasporan-giate, basifixed, longitudinally deshiscent; abortive pistil rarely present. Pistillate flowers solitary, each flower subtended by a pair of bracteoles, perianth reduced to an inconspicuous rim; stamens absent; ovary inferior, bicarpellate, 4-locular, styles 2(−3), stigmatic throughout; ovule 1 per locule, hemitropous, crassinucellate. Fruit a drupe, the single seed containing a thin layer of endosperm and a massive, oily, dicotyledonous embryo.
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Kubitzki, K. (1993). Ticodendraceae. In: Kubitzki, K., Rohwer, J.G., Bittrich, V. (eds) Flowering Plants · Dicotyledons. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, vol 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02899-5_72
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