Lachnostylis
Source:
SSA
Description:
Shrubs or small trees; dioecious. Leaves alternate, entire; stipulate. Flowers fasciculate, axillary, sometimes solitary in female. Male flowers: sepals 5, imbricate, subequal; petals 5, membranous; disc annular, villous; stamens 5, free or connate into a short, basal tube. Female flowers: sepals and petals as in male; disc annular, thick, villous; ovary globose, 2- or 3-locular, with 2 ovules in each locule, tomentose externally and internally; styles bifid. Fruit a capsule breaking up into 2-valved cocci. Seeds subglobose or hemispherical, smooth or slightly wrinkled.
Distribution:
Species 2, Western Cape and Eastern Cape.