Family: Dichapetalaceae
Kingdom: Plantae Rank: Family Parent: Malpighiales Status: Valid
Common Names:
- Dichapetalaceae - English, United States of America
Vegetative Morphology
Habit: Trees, shrubs, or lianas.
Leaves: Leaves simple, alternate; lamina margins entire.
Reproductive Morphology
Inflorescence: Inflorescence axillary or originating from the petiole, corymbose-cymose or capitate, sometimes fasciculate.
Flowers: Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic to slightly zygomorphic; petals 5, free, imbricate or fused into a tube; stamens 5, sometimes only 3 fertile with 2 staminodia, free or adnate to corolla; nectary disk of 5 glands below gynoecium; ovary superior, 2-3-locular, the styles 2-3, sometimes fused almost to apex, the stigma usually capitate, placentation axile.
Fruit: Fruit a non-fleshy drupe, often pubescent.
Seeds: Seeds one per fruit.