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Combretaceae R. Brown
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habit
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woody plants
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important diagnostics
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spiny stems or leaves
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hairs
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glandular, stellate, 2-armed or T-shaped, non-glandular, peltate or scale-like
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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, alternate
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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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with entire margin
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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
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inflorescence
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raceme, spike
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flower: sexuality
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bisexual, unisexual
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flower: symmetry
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actinomorphic, zygomorphic or irregular
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flower: receptacle
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enlarged, completely united with the ovary, totally or partially covering it, enlarged, totally or partially free from the ovary
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flower: disc
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absent, present
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flower: perianth number
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4, 5, 6, 7+
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flower: perianth nature
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perianth of similar segments, perianth of calyx and corolla
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flower: sepal number
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4, 5, 6+
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flower: sepal position
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all free from one another, connate
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flower: sepal nature
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sepals valvate
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flower: petal number
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0, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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flower: petal position
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all free from one another, petals imbricate
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flower: petal nature
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petals valvate
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stamen: number
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4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11+
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stamen: symmetry
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flowers obdiplostemonous
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stamen: anthers
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dorsifixed or ventrifixed, introrse, extrorse, opening by longitudinal slits
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stamen: filaments
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free from the corolla, not connate
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pistil: style
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style 1, or styles more or less connate
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pistil: carpel
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1, 4, 5, 6+
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pistil: ovary
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1-locular
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pistil: ovule
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2 in each loculus, 3+ in each loculus
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pistil
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carpels free from each other or carpel 1, ovules axile, carpels connate, ovules attached to the central axis or ventrally in apocarpae, ovules attached to the apex of the ovary
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fruit: type
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a capsule, a nut, fleshy
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fruit: seed
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1 seed
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seed: cotyledons
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folded or crumpled
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seed: endosperm
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seeds without endosperm
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