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Trees or shrubs, sometimes spiny (not in ours). Stipules present. Leaves alternate, simple. Flowers bisexual, 5-merous. sometimes flowering before the leaves. Petals inserted at the mouth of the calyx tube. Stamens 10-many. Carpel 1, style terminal; ovules 2. Fruit drupaceous, indehiscent, 1(-2)-seeded. Worldwide: 200 species in temperate zones and on tropical mountains Burundi: 2 taxa. |
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| africana (Hook. f.) Kalkman | Description, Image | |
| serotina Ehrh.[Agg] |
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