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CORIARIACEAE 马桑科 ma sang ke 1 2 Min Tianlu ( 闵天禄 Ming Tien-lu) ; Anthony R. Brach Shrubs decumbent or subshrubby herbs; branchlets ribbed. Leaves opposite or verticillate, entire; stipules caducous, minute. Flowers small, bisexual or unisexual, solitary or arranged in a raceme. Sepals 5, imbricate. Petals 5, valvate, smaller than sepals, fleshy, keeled within, enlarged and enclosing carpels after anthesis and forming a pseudodrupe. Stamens 10 in 2 series, free and opposite to petals; anthers exserted, large, 2-celled, longitudinally dehiscent. Carpels 5–10, free; ovary superior; ovule 1 per locule, pendulous, anatropous; styles 5, free, linear; stigma recurved. Pseudodrupe (capsule) oblate, red to black when mature; endosperm thin or absent, embryo erect. One genus and ca. 15 species: China and Himalayan region to Japan, Philippines, and Pacific islands (New Zealand); Central and South America (Mexico to Chile), Mediterranean region; three species in China. Ming Tien lu. 1980. Coriariaceae. In: Cheng Mien Ming Tien lu, eds., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 45(1): 62–66. 1. CORIARIA Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 1037. 1753. 马桑属 ma sang shu Morphological characters and geographical distribution are the same as those of the family. 1a. Subshrubby herbs; inflorescence terminal 3. C. terminalis 1b. Shrubs; inflorescence axillary. 2a. Leaf blade elliptic or broadly elliptic, apex acute; male flower with sterile pistils 1. C. nepalensis 2b. Leaf blade ovate-lanceolate, apex acuminate; male flower without sterile pistils 2. C. i