Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Corynocarpaceae

CORYNOCARPACEAE

Fls perfect, regular, 5-merous, in terminal panicles; petals adnate to base of sepals; stamens perig., opp. petals, alternating with 5 subpetaloid staminodes; anthers 2-celled, opening lengthwise; disk-glands prominent. Ovary superior. 1-2-celled; styles 1-2, free; ovule solitary, pend. Fr. a drupe, seed lacking endosperm. Trees with alt., simple, entire exstipulate lvs. One genus of a few spp. apparently confined to N.Z., New Hebrides and New Caledonia.

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