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Hippocastanaceae

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Hippocastanaceae

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Hippocastanaceae

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Hippocastanaceae

Trees or large shrubs, usually andromonoecious. Lvs opposite, digitately compound, exstipulate. Fls in large terminal racemes or panicles, zygomorphic. Sepals (4)-5, mostly connate and forming a tube. Petals (4)-5, free, unequal, imbricate, clawed. Stamens 5-9, free, inserted within an entire annular or excentric disc. Ovary superior, (1)-3-celled; ovules 2 per cell; style elongated and stigma simple. Fr. a large coriaceous capsule, smooth or echinate, usually 1-celled, opening by 3 valves. Seed usually 1, large, non-endospermic; cotyledons thick and often adherent adaxially; hilum large.

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Hippocastanaceae
Hippocastanaceae
Hippocastanaceae
Hippocastanaceae
Hippocastanaceae
Hippocastanaceae

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1 January 2000
3 August 2011
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