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Monoecious or apparently dioecious shrubs or small trees, with or without a simple indumentum, often blackening on drying.Branching phyllanthoid (see Tab. 8).Leaves alternate, shortly petiolate, stipulate, simple, entire, penninerved, borne on plagiotropic shoots (leafy or floriferous lateral shoots of limited growth, see Phyllanthus).Flowers axillary, the male fasciculate or solitary, usually in the proximal axils, the female solitary, usually in the distal axils.Male flowers: pedicels often capillary; calyx obconic or turbinate, calyx lobes 6, imbricate, sharply inflexed; petals absent; disk absent; stamens 3, united into a short column, anthers elongate, thecae linear, extrorse, adnate to the column, longitudinally dehiscent; pistillode absent.Female flowers: pedicels sometimes capillary; calyx lobes 6, imbricate, not inflexed, usually larger than in the male flowers, accrescent; disk absent; ovary 3-locular, ovules 2 per locule; styles 3, free, short, erect, simple or bifid.Fruit ± baccate, tardily and often incompletely loculicidally dehiscent; exocarp sometimes somewhat fleshy; endocarp crustaceous.Seeds trigonous, ecarunculate; testa membranous; albumen fleshy; cotyledons broad; radicle long.

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Monoecious or apparently dioecious shrubs or small trees, with or without a simple indumentum, often blackening on drying.Branching phyllanthoid (see Tab. 8).Leaves alternate, shortly petiolate, stipulate, simple, entire, penninerved, borne on plagiotropic shoots (leafy or floriferous lateral shoots of limited growth, see Phyllanthus).Flowers axillary, the male fasciculate or solitary, usually in the proximal axils, the female solitary, usually in the distal axils.Male flowers: pedicels often capillary; calyx obconic or turbinate, calyx lobes 6, imbricate, sharply inflexed; petals absent; disk absent; stamens 3, united into a short column, anthers elongate, thecae linear, extrorse, adnate to the column, longitudinally dehiscent; pistillode absent.Female flowers: pedicels sometimes capillary; calyx lobes 6, imbricate, not inflexed, usually larger than in the male flowers, accrescent; disk absent; ovary 3-locular, ovules 2 per locule; styles 3, free, short, erect, simple or bifid.Fruit ± baccate, tardily and often incompletely loculicidally dehiscent; exocarp sometimes somewhat fleshy; endocarp crustaceous.Seeds trigonous, ecarunculate; testa membranous; albumen fleshy; cotyledons broad; radicle long.

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Monoecious or apparently dioecious shrubs or small trees, with or without a simple indumentum, often blackening on drying.Branching phyllanthoid (see Tab. 8).Leaves alternate, shortly petiolate, stipulate, simple, entire, penninerved, borne on plagiotropic shoots (leafy or floriferous lateral shoots of limited growth, see Phyllanthus).Flowers axillary, the male fasciculate or solitary, usually in the proximal axils, the female solitary, usually in the distal axils.Male flowers: pedicels often capillary; calyx obconic or turbinate, calyx lobes 6, imbricate, sharply inflexed; petals absent; disk absent; stamens 3, united into a short column, anthers elongate, thecae linear, extrorse, adnate to the column, longitudinally dehiscent; pistillode absent.Female flowers: pedicels sometimes capillary; calyx lobes 6, imbricate, not inflexed, usually larger than in the male flowers, accrescent; disk absent; ovary 3-locular, ovules 2 per locule; styles 3, free, short, erect, simple or bifid.Fruit ± baccate, tardily and often incompletely loculicidally dehiscent; exocarp sometimes somewhat fleshy; endocarp crustaceous.Seeds trigonous, ecarunculate; testa membranous; albumen fleshy; cotyledons broad; radicle long.