Litchi
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Description
Trees, monoecious.
Leaves spirally arranged or sometimes partly, nearly opposite, especially towards the inflorescence, paripinnate, 1-4- (?sometimes 5-)jugate;
Inflorescences terminal and axillary, thyrsoid;
Flowers actinomorphic, unisexual.
Petals absent.
Stamens 6-11, far exserted in male flowers, short in female and in seemingly bisexual, but functionally male flowers;
Ovules 1 per cell, basal.
Fruits nearly always only 1 cell developed, hardly stipitate, ellipsoid, ovoid, or globular, not winged, indehiscent(?), glabrous, spiny to scaly;
Seeds glabrous, partly or completely enveloped by an entire, translucent, juicy arillode.