Anginon

Raf.
Source: 
SSA
Description: 
Woody shrubs or undershrubs, sometimes glaucous. Leaves tripinnatisect, often reduced to rachises and/or petioles which are sometimes long, simple and pine needle-like, with or without longitudinal grooves along upper sides. Flowers in compound, bracteate umbels. Calyx with short, triangular teeth or linear, acute lobes. Petals broadly ovate, inflexed at apex, keeled on inner face. Disc conical. Styles shorter or longer than petals. Stamens +/- as long as petals. Fruit somewhat elliptic, crowned with persistent disc and styles, smooth, rugose or tuberculate but not ribbed or winged; mericarps flat on face, convex on back, a single oil duct in each of 4 furrows and 2 on face, rarely 8-12 around each seed; carpophore bipartite. Seeds semiterete.
Distribution: 
Species 12, sthn Afr., S Namibia, Northern and Western to Eastern Cape.
Classification: 

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