Description:
Dioecious, monoecious or polygamous shrubs or trees; bark grey, smooth. Leaves alternate, simple or pinnate; leaflets in 1-6 pairs, uppermost largest, lowermost much smaller, oblanceolate, elliptic to lanceolate, entire but sometimes undulate, glabrous except main veins underneath, main lateral veins in 4-14 pairs. Inflorescence terminal, axillary or cauliflorous, paniculate or thyrsoid with few spreading branches. Flowers regular. Sepals 3-5, +/- free. Petals 0 or 5. Stamens 4-8, well exserted. Ovary 2- or 3-lobed; ovules 1 per locule; style 2- or 3-locular and -lobed. Seeds without aril.
Distribution:
Species 8, Malesia, Sri Lanka, Madagascar and trop. Africa; sthn trop. Afr. 2, Angola, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique.
Source:
SSTA
Synonym(s):
Melanodiscus Radlk., Exell & Mendonca: 92 (1954/1956); Exell: 528 (1966); Exell & Sousa: 34 (1973); White et al.: 533 (2001). Crossonephelis Baill.; Leenhouts: 91 (1973).
Classification:
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