HIPPOCASTANACEAE
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.293200 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B0402C-FEC7-E26E-FB50-FE2EDF47FB97 |
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Plazi |
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HIPPOCASTANACEAE |
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XCVII. HIPPOCASTANACEAE 1
Trees or large shrubs. Leaves opposite, digitate, exstipulate. Flowers male and hermaphrodite, somewhat zygomorphic. Sepals 5, connate; petals 5, free; stamens 5-9, free, hypogynous; ovary superior, 3-locular, with 2 ovules in each loculus; style and stigma 1. Fruit a large, 1 - to 2-seeded, loculicidal capsule, opening by 3 valves.
Represented in Europe by one species. The family is otherwise confined to America and S. & E. Asia.
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