Gaiadendron
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Trees or shrubs of usually terrestrial habitat, parasitic on roots of other vascular plants. Leaves dark green, paired, broadly lanceolate to ovate. Inflorescences a raceme of stalked triads, median flowers of triads sessile, lateral ones short-stalked, each subtended by a green, foliaceous bract/bracteole. Flowers bisexual, 6- or 7-merous; anthers versatile and dorsifixed. Fruit a rather large, pulpy berry; seed not viscid, with grooved, white endosperm and dicotylous, small embryo. (x = 12, 24).