Source:
SSA
Description:
Shrubs. Stems erect to recurved; each node with a spine. Leaves fascicled at nodes, imparipinnate, 4- or 5-jugate; leaflets oblong to obovate. Flowers solitary, peduncled, arising from fascicles of leaves. Calyx with a shallow tube, 5-lobed; lobes longer than tube, tomentose. Petals 5, reflexed, cuneate, villous at base, dull yellow. Stamens 10; filaments with a villous appendage at base. Disc hyaline, urceolate, enclosing ovary. Ovary deeply 5-lobed, 5-locular with a single ovule in each locule, villous; style simple, stout, 5-angled; stigma simple. Fruit a capsule breaking into 5 mericarps. Seeds without endosperm.
Distribution:
Monotypic: Neoluederitzia sericeocarpa Schinz, in the southern part of Namibia.
Classification:
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