Barringtonioideae
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Description
Small to large trees, rarely shrubs, pachycaul or leptocaul.
Leaves alternate or spirally in whorls at apex or at apex of branches, simple, margins entire or serrate-crenulate, pinnately nerved, usually brochidodromous;
Inflorescences terminal, axillary or cauline, simple, often pendulous racemes, or panicles in Chydenanthus and Petersianthus, or rarely flowers solitary.
Flowers actinomorphic, hermaphrodite, sessile or pedicellate;
Petals 3-5, free, most often 4, aestivation imbricate.
Stamens numerous, inserted in 3-8(-12) whorls, usually far-exserted and equalling filaments, connate at base into short staminal ring, the ring actinomorphic, inner whorls often staminodal;
Ovary inferior, usually 2-4-locular with 2-6 anatropous ovules in each locule, rarely more;
Fruits indehiscent, dry or fleshy, rarely winged.
Seeds 1-5(-many in Planchonia), without wings except in Petersianthus;