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Gleason, H.A. & Cronquist, A. (1963) Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada D. van Nostrand Co, Inc. Princetown New Jersey.
Trees or large shrubs, deciduous. Leaves simple, alternate. Flowers 4-merous, white or pale pink in lateral umbel-like clusters; calyx narrowly obconic, completely adherent to the ovary; corolla broadly campanulate, 4-lobed. Ovary inferior. Fruit dry drupe, indehiscent, the oblong body conspicuously winged. Worldwide: 4-5 species native to East Asia and eastern North America. Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon. |
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