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Actinidiaceae

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New Zealand
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Actinidiaceae

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Actinidiaceae

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Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. 1988: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. IV. Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons. Botany Division DSIR, Christchurch.

Actinidiaceae

Trees or shrubs, often climbing, dioecious or gynodioecious. Lvs alternate, exstipulate, simple. Fls usually in axillary cymes or fascicles, actinomorphic. Sepals (4)-5, imbricate. Petals (4)-5, imbricate, or somewhat contorted, deciduous. Stamens nearly always numerous, versatile, inflexed in bud. Ovary superior, 3-many-locular; carpel walls sometimes reaching the central axis. Ovules 1-numerous; styles 5-many, usually persistent. Fr. a berry or hard capsule. Seeds small, numerous, endospermic.

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Actinidiaceae
Actinidiaceae
Cronquist, A. (1988)
Actinidiaceae
Theales
Actinidiaceae
Actinidiaceae
Kubitzki, K. (2004)
Ericales Bercht. & J.Presl
Actinidiaceae
Actinidiaceae
Mabberley, D.J. (2008)
Actinidiaceae
Ericales Bercht. & J.Presl
Actinidiaceae
Actinidiaceae
Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. (1988)

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1 January 2000
4 August 2011
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