Pseudolachnostylis
Source:
SSA
Description:
Trees or shrubs; dioecious, rarely monoecious. Leaves alternate, petiolate, entire, somewhat coriaceous; stipulate. Inflorescence of male flowers in few-flowered, pedunculate cymes, surrounded by bracts; female flowers axillary, usually solitary. Petals 0. Male flowers: sepals 5(6), imbricate; disc annular, glabrous; stamens (4)5-7; filaments connate for greater part of their length; ovary rudimentary, 2-fid. Female flower: sepals as in male, with circumscissile dehiscence; disc +/- basin-shaped, partially surrounding ovary; ovary 3-locular, with 2 ovules in each locule, often densely villous; styles 3, slightly connate at base, bilobed. Fruit globose, tardily septicidally dehiscent, subdrupaceous; exocarp smooth, shiny, becoming wrinkled on drying; endocarp thick, woody. Seed solitary in each locule by abortion, ellipsoid-ovoid, ecarunculate; albumen fleshy; cotyledons broad and flat.
Distribution:
Species 1, Pseudolachnostylis maprouneifolia Pax with 4 varieties, Africa; Namibia, Botswana, Northern Province and Mpumalanga.