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Macadamia (after John Macadam, M.D., secretary Philosophical Institute, Victoria, Australia). Proteaceae?. A small group of Australian trees or tall shrubs, of which M. ternifolia is cultivated for its edible fruit, and is the best known.
Leaves verticillate, entire or serrate: fls. hermaphrodite, pedicellate in pairs or scattered, in terminal or axillary racemes or panicles; perianth regular or nearly so; stamens inserted a little below the blades, filaments short; ovary sessile, with a long straight style, ovoid or clavate at end, stigma small; ovules 2: fr. globular; seeds either solitary and globular or 2 and hemispherical; testa membranous.
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{{otheruses4|the nut|the band|Macadamia (band)}}
