Description:
Monoecious subshrubs, shrubs or trees, glabrous; latex white. Leaves alternate; petiolate, eglandular; blades simple, shallowly serrate to entire, often with 1 or 2 marginal glands; stipules linear, soon deciduous. Inflorescences terminal, leaf-opposed or sometimes axillary, solitary, spicate or racemiform, all male or with 1(2) female flowers at base; male bracts broad, 3-many-flowered, with 1 to several pairs of disc- to cup-shaped glands. Male flowers : pedicel jointed; calyx lobes 3(4); petals 0; stamens 2 or 3, free, very short. Female flowers : pedicels long; calyx lobes 3(4); petals 0; ovary 3-lobed, each lobe with 2 appendages; styles 3. Fruit 3-lobed, septicidally dehiscent into 3 bivalved cocci, each valve with an appendix. Seeds ovoid-ellipsoid, smooth, pale grey, without caruncle.
Source:
SSTA
Synonym(s):
Sapium Jacq. in part, as to some African species; Leonard: 151 (1962); Radcliffe-Smith: (1996).
Classification:
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