Amanoa
Description:
Trees, glabrous in all parts. Leaves alternate, petiolate, oblanceolate to oblong-elliptic, shortly and obtusely acuminate, deltoid at base, entire, coriaceous; stipules adnate to base of petiole. Inflorescences either bisexual or male; flowers in solitary, subglobose, sessile, terminal and axillary heads surrounded by coriaceous bracts, outer bracts keeled and mucronate, inner ones doubly keeled; bracteoles lanceolate, membranous. Male flowers : sepals 5, imbricate; petals 5, short, scale-like; stamens 5, arising within short, glabrous disc; filaments free, thick, short, episepalous; anthers ovoid, dehiscing introrsely by longitudinal slits; rudimentary ovule 3-lobed. Female flowers : sepals as in male flowers; petals sometimes obsolete; ovary subglobose, 3-locular; stigmas 3, sessile, discoid, thick; ovules 2 per locule. Capsule separating into 2-valved cocci. Seeds solitary by abortion, shining, testa crustaceous; endosperm thin or absent.
Distribution:
Species 16, tropical America, Africa and Madagascar; sthn trop. Afr. 1: Amanoa strobilacea Mull.Arg., Angola (Cabinda).
Source:
SSTA
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