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|accepted_name=Hamamelidaceae
|accepted_authority=R. Brown
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|common_names=Witch-hazel Family
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Hamamelidaceae
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Hamamelidaceae]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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|treatment_page=page 362
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees </b>or shrubs, deciduous; pubescence stellate or sometimes simple. <b>Dormant</b> buds naked or scaly. <b>Leaves</b> alternate, simple, petiolate; stipules early deciduous. <b>Leaf</b> blade unlobed or deeply (3-)5-7-lobed, pinnately or palmately veined. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary or terminal, capitate or spicate to ± racemose, bracteate. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual or unisexual; perianth epigynous, 1-2-seriate, 4-5-merous, often reduced or absent, hypanthium present; calyx persistent, 4-5(-7)-lobed, or absent; petals distinct or absent; stamens 4-34; anthers basifixed, latrorse, 2-locular, longitudinally dehiscent by simple slit or by 1-2 vertical valves; pistil 1, 2-carpellate; ovary half-inferior, 2-locular; placentation axile; ovules 1(-2) in each locule and apical, or many, anatropous, pendent; styles and stigmas persistent, 2 each, erect or contorted and recurved. <b>Fruits</b> capsular, with leathery exocarp and bony endocarp, loculicidal and 2-seeded or septicidal with most of many seeds per locule aborted; 1-2 viable seeds per locule (<i>Liquidambar</i>). <b>Seeds</b> fusiform, bony, lustrous, hilum apical, light colored, or seeds winged, hilum lateral (<i>Liquidambar</i>).</span><!--

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|distribution=Temperate to tropical regions;e North America;Mexico;Central America;e Asia;Africa (including Madagascar);Pacific Islands;and Australia.
|discussion=<p>Genera ca. 31, species ca. 100 (3 genera, 5 species in the flora).</p>
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|id=bogle1970a
|text=Bogle, A. L. 1970. Floral morphology and vascular anatomy of the Hamamelidaceae: The apetalous genera of Hamamelidoideae. J. Arnold Arbor. 51: 310-366.
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|id=britton1905a
|text=Britton, N. L. 1905. Hamamelidaceae. In: N. L. Britton et al., eds. 1905+. North American Flora.... 47+ vols. New York. Vol. 22, pp. 185-187.
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|id=endress1987a
|text=Endress, P. K. 1987. Aspects of evolutionary differentiation of the Hamamelidaceae and the lower Hamamelidae. Pl. Syst. Evol. 162: 193-211.
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|id=endress1989a
|text=Endress, P. K. 1989. A suprageneric taxonomic classification of the Hamamelidaceae. Taxon 38(3): 371-376.
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|id=endress1989b
|text=Endress, P. K. 1989b. Phylogenetic relationships in the Hamamelidoideae. In: P. R. Crane and S. Blackmore, eds. 1989. Evolution, Systematics, and Fossil History of the Hamamelidae. 2 vols. Oxford. Vol. 1, pp. 227-248. [Syst. Assoc. Special Vol. 40A, B.]
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|id=ernst1963a
|text=Ernst, W. R. 1963. The genera of Hamamelidaceae and Platanaceae in the southeastern United States. J. Arnold Arbor. 44: 193-210.
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|id=godfrey1988a
|text=Godfrey, R. K. 1988. Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines of Northern Florida and Adjacent Georgia and Alabama. Athens, Ga.
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|id=goldblatt1977a
|text=Goldblatt, P. and P. K. Endress. 1977. Cytology and evolution in Hamamelidaceae. J. Arnold Arbor. 58: 67-71.
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==Key==
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|1
|Trees with simple hairs; leaf blade palmately (3-)5(-7)-lobed and - veined; flowers unisexual, terminal, the staminate in ± racemose heads, each head a clustered mass of numerous stamens, pistillate inflorescences many flowered; capsules septicidal, fused at base into long-pedunculate, globose, echinate heads; viable seeds winged, most seeds aborted.
|[[Liquidambar|Liquidambar]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Shrubs or small trees with stellate pubescence; leaf blade unlobed, pinnately veined; flowers bisexual, in axillary, few-flowered clusters or in many-flowered, elongate spikes; capsules loculicidal, not fused into heads; viable seeds not winged.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Inflorescences axillary, (1-)3(-5)-flowered clusters; calyx lobes 4, reflexed; petals 4, liguliform, yellow or reddish, deep red to orange; stamens 4, very short; staminodes 4; capsules solitary or 2-3 together.
|[[Hamamelis|Hamamelis]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Inflorescences terminal, elongate, many-flowered spikes; calyx lobes 5-7(-9), erect; petals absent; stamens 12-34; filaments white, 4-17 mm; staminodes absent; capsules in groups of more than 3.
|[[Fothergilla|Fothergilla]]
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|author=Frederick G. Meyer
|authority=R. Brown
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|family=Hamamelidaceae
|illustrator=John Myers
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=Temperate to tropical regions;e North America;Mexico;Central America;e Asia;Africa (including Madagascar);Pacific Islands;and Australia.
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