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Clethraceae

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Clethraceae 

a family of dicotyledonous plants; shrubs or low trees with alternate leaves. The flowers are unisexual, regular, usually very fragrant, and gathered into racemose or paniculate inflorescences. The calyx and corolla are five-membered; the ovary is superior and three-celled; the fruit is a capsule There are two genera: Schizocardia, with one species native to British Honduras, and Clethra. Clethraceae are cultivated as ornamentals in greenhouses and in southern regions outdoors.

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Takhtadzhian, A. L. Sistema i filogeniia tsvetkovykh rastenii. Moscow-Leningrad, 1966.
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Swamp forests grew in the damp river valleys, and in them grew exotic Glyptostrobus pensilis (called water pines by the Chinese), shrubs from the Salicaceae , Myricaceae and Clethraceae families and herbaceous plants from the family Commelinaceae .
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