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Chloranthaceae Blume
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habit
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woody plants, herbaceous plants
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distribution
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African, Asian, Australian and Oceanian, North American, South American
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leaf: position
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opposite or verticillate
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leaf: nature
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not compound
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leaf: venation
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pinnate or hardly visible in leaves or leaflets.
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margin
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dentate
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leaf: epidermis
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epidermis of leaf papillose
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leaf: glands/ligule
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with pellucid or glandular dots or lines
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leaf: stipules
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absent, present
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inflorescence
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spike, head, simple, sympodial, compound, sympodial or monopodial
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flower: sexuality
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bisexual, unisexual
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flower: symmetry
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actinomorphic
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flower: receptacle
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enlarged, completely united with the ovary, totally or partially covering it
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flower: disc
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absent
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flower: perianth number
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0, 3
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flower: perianth nature
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perianth of similar segments
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flower: sepal number
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0, 3
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flower: sepal position
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all free from one another, connate
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flower: petal number
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0
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stamen: number
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1, 2, 3
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stamen: anthers
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dorsifixed or ventrifixed, basifixed, introrse, extrorse, opening by longitudinal slits, 1-locular at anthesis
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stamen: filaments
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connate into 1 tube or bundle
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stamen: other characters
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anthers with a conspicuous appendage
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pistil: style
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styles absent, stigmas sessile, style 1, or styles more or less connate
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pistil: carpel
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1
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pistil: ovary
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1-locular
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pistil: ovule
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1 in each loculus
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pistil
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carpels free from each other or carpel 1, ovules attached to the apex of the ovary
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fruit: type
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fleshy
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fruit: seed
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1 seed
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seed: embryo
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straight
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seed: endosperm
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seeds with endosperm
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