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| | American Journal of Botany, 74, 2, February, 1987 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01) |
 | | All of these embryological characteristics are apomorphic features; they contrast with many other characteristics of the genus, such as its completely superior ovary and separate staminal traces, which are clearly primitive ones. |
 | | Like the unique monotypic Psiloxylon, an endemic of Mauritius, Heteropyxis clearly diverged early from the evolutionary line leading to Myrtaceae before the origin of the common ancestor of that family (excluding Heteropyxis and Psiloxylon). |
 | | Heteropyxis could logically be regarded either as a subfamily of Myrtaceae distinct from all other members of the family or as a separate but related family. |
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