Source:
SSA
Description:
Trees or shrubs, polygamo-dioecious. Leaves alternate, simple, entire, coriaceous. Flowers in corymbose terminal panicles. Sepals 5, imbricate, slightly connate at base. Petals 5, imbricate, reflexed, caducous. Stamens 7-10, 1 or 2 fertile, rest sterile, unequal; filaments connate at base. Disc 0. Ovary 1-carpous, 1-locular; ovule single, ascendent; style 1 with capitate stigma. Fruit obliquely reniform on swollen pedicel. Seeds reniform with 2 large, white, thick cotyledons. x = 10, 12 or 6 ( polyploidy).
Distribution:
Species 8 in tropical America; * Anacardium occidentale L., Cashew Nut, a strong-growing, spreading tree, is becoming naturalised in parts of subtropical KwaZulu-Natal.
Classification:
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