Tovariaceae
plant family
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The Tovariaceae is a small family of flowering plants within the order Brassicales. It contains a single genus, Tovaria, with two species of annual herbs native to the Neotropics. These plants are characterized by trifoliate leaves and spicate flowers where the sepals, petals, and stamens are typically in eights, and the gynoecium consists of six carpels. The fruit of the Tovariaceae family is a berry.12
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