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Heywood, V.H., Brummitt, R.K., Culham, A. & Seberg, O. (2007) Flowering Plant Families of the World Kew
Mabberley, D.J. (2002) The Plant Book Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Robson, N.K.B. (1963) Ixonanthaceae Flora Zambesiaca 2(1) 100-102
Trees up to 30 m. or shrubs with leaves alternate, simple, entire or serrate, penninerved; stipules small or absent. Inflorescence a terminal or axillary cyme or raceme. Flowers bisexual, ± regular, ± hypogynous, in racemose to cymose inflorescences, mostly 5-merous. Sepals ± imbricate, petals free, imbricate or convolute, persistent in fruit. Stamens 5, 10, 15 or 20, in 1 whorl. Ovary superior or slightly inferior, syncarpous, carpels 5 with simple style and stigma. Locules often divided incompletely by outgrowths of the carpel wall, with 2 pendulous ovules in each locule. Fruit a capsule with valves splitting away from the central column. Worldwide: 4/5 genera and about 30 species tropics,in eastern South America, tropical Africa, Madagascar and Malesia. 1 genus in F.Z. Malawi: 1 genus and 1 taxon. |
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