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182. THEACEAE subfam. TERNSTROEMIOIDEAE
厚皮香亚科 hou pi xiang ya ke
Plants bisexual, dioecious, or androdioecious. Flowers usually small, less than 2 cm in diam. Stamens in (1 or)2 whorls (1-5 whorls in Adinandra); anthers basifixed, oblong, connective exserted. Fruit baccate, indehiscent, or sometimes dehiscent (in Anneslea and Ternstroemia). Seeds with endosperm.
About 11 genera and ca. 350 species: tropical and subtropical Africa, tropical America, E, S, and SE Asia, Pacific islands; six genera (one endemic) and 129 species (98 endemic) in China.
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Flowers ca. 2 cm in diam.; ovary with 1 to several ovules per locule; seeds 5-14 mm, with fleshy red outer layer, surface not foveolate and not shiny |
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Flowers less than 1 cm in diam.; ovary with several to many ovules per locule; seeds ca. 2 mm or less, without a fleshy red outer layer, surface foveolate and shiny |
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Plants androdioecious; ovary superior but reduced to a pistillode in male flowers. |
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7 Ternstroemia |
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Plants bisexual; ovary half inferior. |
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8 Anneslea |
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Plants dioecious; anthers glabrous. |
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12 Eurya |
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Plants bisexual; anthers with pubescence |
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Leaves distichously arranged; pedicel 0.4-0.6 cm; flowers 5-6 mm in diam.; ovary 3-loculed with 6-8 ovules per locule; fruit 3-4 mm in diam. |
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Leaves spirally arranged; pedicel 0.5-4 cm; flowers greater than 6 mm in diam.; ovary 2-5-loculed with 8-100 ovules per locule; fruit 4-20 mm in diam |
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Ovary 3-5(or 6)-loculed, 20-100 ovules per locule, style simple or apically 3-5-lobed; seeds less than 1 mm. |
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9 Adinandra |
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Ovary 2- or 3-loculed, 8-16 ovules per locule, style apically 2- or 3-lobed; seeds 1-2 mm. |
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10 Cleyera |
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