Trees. Leaves alternate, stipulate, colleters + or 0. Inflorescences racemose; pedicels articulated. Flowers bisexual or unisexual and then plants dioecious, 5-merous, haplostemonous, stamens antesepalous; gynoecium syncarpous, ovary 2- or 3-locular; stylodia widely divergent, with slightly expanded stigmas; ovules 2 per locule, collateral. Capsule loculicidal. Seed 1 per locule, almost completely enveloped by an exostomal fleshy, sheet-like, coloured aril; seed coat exotegmic, thick-walled, ribbon-shaped; endosperm copious; embryo small.
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Kubitzki, K. (2014). Centroplacaceae. In Flowering Plants. Eudicots: Malpighiales (Vol. 11, pp. 17–18). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39417-1_4
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