Acridocarpus

Guill. & Perr.
Source: 
SSA
Description: 
Shrubs, woody climbers, or scramblers. Leaves usually alternate, entire or sinuate, usually with glands at base beneath; stipules absent. Flowers regular, in dense terminal racemes. Calyx 5-lobed, usually with 1 or more sunken glands on outside. Petals free, unguiculate, entire or slightly fimbriate, yellow. Stamens: filaments short, free or nearly so; anthers opening by short pore-like slit at apex. Ovary 3-locular, 1 locule abortive; styles 2, curved upwards. Fruit breaking into 2, dorsally winged samaras. x = 9.
Distribution: 
Species +/- 30, all tropical and subtropical Africa, with one each in Madagascar and New Caledonia; 1 in sthn Afr.: Acridocarpus natalitius Juss. with two varieties, Northern Province, Mpumalanga, Swaziland, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape.
Classification: 
MALPIGHIACEAE

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Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith