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Trees, shrubs or herbs. Inflorescences terminal or leaf-opposed racemes (in ours). Flowers bisexual or unisexual. Sepals free, subequal, sometimes reflexed. Fruit of 4-many free or connate carpels, fleshy, ± spherical. Derivation of name: phyton - plant, lakha - red dye (Persian); referring to the dye produced by the fruits. Worldwide: 25 species, in tropical and warm areas Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon. |
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