Description:
Trees or shrubs, monoecious or (?)sometimes androdioecious. Leaves distichous, pinnately veined to subtriplinerved; stipules fully amplexicaul, free. Inflorescences in leaf axils or just below leaves, bisexual or staminate, discoid or subglobose to turbinate-capitate; bracts interfloral, peltate, marginal bracts often basally attached. Staminate flowers several to many; tepals 3 or 4, connate; stamens (1)2, inflexed in bud; pistillode present. Pistillate flower 1, central, partly adnate to receptacle; perianth 4-lobed; ovary adnate to perianth; stigmas 2, band-shaped, equal. Fruit forming a drupaceous whole with an enlarged, fleshy, orange to yellow receptacle, crowned with remnants of staminate flowers and bracts. Seed large, without endosperm; cotyledons thick, unequal.
Distribution:
Monotypic, trop. Africa: Bosqueiopsis gilletii De Wild. & T.Durand, Mozambique.
Source:
SSTA
Classification:
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