Atalaya

Blume
Source: 
SSA
Synonym(s): 
Diacarpa Sim: 33, t. 5 (1909).
Description: 
Trees. Leaves paripinnate, rarely simple; leaflets in 2-5 pairs, alternate or opposite, lanceolate to obliquely oblong-falcate, usually entire. Flowers small; in terminal panicles. Sepals 5, suborbicular, imbricate, outer smaller than inner. Petals (4)5, usually with a hairy scale on inner face, ciliate. Disc fleshy, expanded at base with margin slightly notched. Stamens 8, arising within disc; filaments hairy. Ovary 3-locular, 3-lobed, each lobe narrowly winged; with a single ovule in each locule; style short; stigma simple. Fruit of 2 or 3 winged cocci, with wings distinctly veined. Seeds ellipsoid with papery testa. x = 10 or 15.
Distribution: 
Species 8 or 9, Australia to Indochina and sthn Afr.; 3 in sthn Afr., comparatively rare; 2 mainly in Mpumalanga, Swaziland, KwaZulu-Natal, the third, rare, in Eastern Cape near Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage; also in Mozambique.
Classification: 
SAPINDACEAE

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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