Source:
SSA
Description:
Trees up to +/- 6 m tall, with somewhat waxy bark. Leaves crowded at ends of branches, petiolate, pinnate; leaflets ovate, acuminate, setose on margins. Flowers bisexual or male, in compound umbels; involucres of a few bracts. Calyx with small teeth. Petals obovate, with long, inflexed apex, keeled on face. Stamens longer than petals; filaments terete; anthers oblong. Male flowers with disc cushion-shaped and rudimentary styles. Bisexual flowers with disc slightly concave; ovary obovate; styles terete, +/- half as long as stamens. Fruit flattened, obovate in outline, ribbed, winged; mericarps convex on back, with 3 prominent, acute veins, winged on margin, flat on face, with narrow, apical channel; oil ducts inconspicuous; carpophore bipartite. Seeds planoconvex.
Distribution:
Species 2, Africa; 1 in sthn Afr.: Steganotaenia araliacea Hochst., northern parts of Namibia and Botswana, Northern Province and Mpumalanga.
Classification:
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