EUPOMATIACEAE
Morphological description
Woody, non-climbing.
Leaves
Leaves alternate, simple, entire, penninerved, exstipulate.
Inflorescence
Usually flowers solitary.
Flowers
Flower bisexual, actinomorphic; perianth forming a deciduous calyptra, stamens and staminodes many; carpels many, sunk into a broad hypanthium.
Fruit
Fruit a truncate berry.
Different from: Annonaceae: flowers not calyptrate, carpels nearly always free. — Himantandraceae: lepidote, fruit globular. — Lauraceae: flowers not calyptrate, anthers opening by valves, fruit 1-carpellate.
Distribution: The only genus, Eupomatia, consists of two species, one in E. Australia, the other in E. New Guinea.
Notes: Understory tree of lowland rain forest, flowers sweet-scented, visited by bees; potential ornamental.
Literature: J.R. Croft, Handb. Fl. Papua New Guinea 1 (1978) 123-126. — Dr. P.K. Endress (Zurich) is revising the family for Flora Malesiana.
Spot characters (Van Balgooy): 30, 92.
Illustrations: Fig. 66. Eupomatia laurina R. Br. (Courtesy Department of Forests, PNG).
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