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(Last Modified On 2/7/2013)
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(Last Modified On 2/7/2013)
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Genus
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DRIMYS J. R. & G. Forst.
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Charact. Gen. P1. 83. 1776.
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Synonym
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Wintera Murr. Syst. Veg. ed. 14, 507. 1784.
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Description
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Trees or shrubs, sometimes epiphytic. Leaves alternate. Flowers hermaphrodite or unisexual, solitary, fasciculate or umbellate. Calyx at first completely closed round the bud, at length splitting into 2-3 often caducous lobes; petals 2 or more, sometimes reduced to 1 or 0. Carpels 1 or more, in 1 series, free; ovules 2-seriate on the ventral suture. Fruit apocarpous of 1 or more baccate carpels.
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Habit
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Trees or shrubs
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Distribution
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Species about 40, 4 in Central and South America, the others distributed in eastern Australia and in Malaysia from the Philippines and Borneo to New Guinea. The biggest concentration of species is in New Guinea.
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