Source:
SSA
Description:
Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, simple, petiolate, often shiny. Flowers small, in terminal or axillary cymes, corymbs, or panicles. Calyx saucer-shaped, small, minutely 5-toothed. Petals 5, free or united into a basal tube; lobes valvate. Stamens 5, slightly cohering at base with petals or corolla tube. Ovary 1-locular, with 2 pendulous ovules; style terete, excentric or oblique, often +/- incurved; stigma small. Fruit a drupe, obliquely ellipsoid or orbicular, compressed with large, lateral, fleshy appendage, often with remains of style on one side of base; embryo apically in seed; endosperm fleshy. x = 12.
Distribution:
Species 5-17 (depending on species concept), Africa, Madagascar, and Austrolasia; 3 in eastern and southern parts of sthn Afr.
Classification:
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