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| | Apiales |
 | | Torricelliaceae + Griseliniaceae + Araliaceae + Pittosporaceae + Myodocarpaceae + Apiaceae: young stems with peripheral collechyma; vessels mainly in groups; pits in general with at most narrow borders; paratracheal parenchyma +; pericyclic fibers 0 or few; nodes 5(+):5(+); leaf bases broad; C apparently free, imbricate, G inferior, styles/stigmas recurved. |
 | | However, gynoecial development, etc., in the whole Apiales needs reinvestigation, given the inclusion of the superior-ovaried Pennantiaceae in it and the need to think of the morphology of the Pittosporaceae as quite probably being derived, rather than of the kind from which that of the Apiaceae, etc., was derived. |
 | | The ultimate units of the inflorescence are umbels or heads, the flowers are often rather small, there are often three or more carpels and the petals are valvate; the fruit is drupaceous, sometimes flattened laterally, and the seeds may be ruminate. |
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