Chlamydocarya
Description:
Tall dioecious lianes with irritating hairs, especially those on fruit. Leaves alternate, entire or subdenticulate, penninerved with secondary nerves often prolonged beyond leaf margin by projecting hydathodes. Inflorescences: spikes of glomerules. Male flowers in cauline or axillary spikes; calyx absent; petals 4; stamens 4, with distinct filaments; anthers ellipsoid; gynoecium rudimentary. Female flowers in glomerules or spikes; sepals 4, +/- fused at base; petals 4, fused into a tube ending in a crown of hairs and strongly accrescent in fruit; staminodes 4, alternisepalous; ovary 1-locular; style short, tubular; stigma divided. Fruit globose drupes, lower part fused with corolla; upper part surrounded by the strongly accrescent corolla narrowing into a long tube; endocarp crustaceous to subwoody with prickles on inner surface. Seeds with numerous small pits corresponding to prickles on inside of endocarp; embryo as long as seed.
Distribution:
Species 6, trop. Africa; sthn trop.Afr. 1(2), Angola.
Source:
SSTA