Lardizabalaceae
Lianes or sometimes shrubs, usually monoecious or dioecious, usually evergreen. Lvs alternate, compound, exstipulate. Fls usually in racemes, less commonly solitary. Sepals (3)-6, imbricate or valvate, petaloid; petals 6 or 0; nectaries usually present. Stamens 6, free or connate. Ovary superior; carpels usually 3-(15), divergent, becoming free and fleshy; ovules numerous on marginal placentas. Fr. large and fleshy, indehiscent, or dehiscent and opening by a ventral suture. Seed with abundant endosperm.
7 genera, 35-40 spp., Himalaya to Japan and Korea, Chile.
