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Gleason, H.A. & Cronquist, A. (1963) Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada D. van Nostrand Co, Inc. Princetown New Jersey.
Trees or shrubs with milky exudate. Leaves simple, alternate with serrated or lobed margins. Flowers staminate in cylindric catkins, with deeply 4-lobed calyx and 4 stamens. Flowers in dense globose heads. Fruit globose, dense consisting mainly of the accrescent calyces, from which orange achenes protrude. Worldwide: 2-8 species in Asia and the Pacific. Malawi: 1 cultivated taxon. |
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| papyrifera (L.) L'Herit. ex Vent. |
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