Craterispermum

Benth.
Description: 
Glabrous trees or shrubs mostly with yellow-green foliage. Leaves opposite, petiolate, blades mostly oblong or elliptic, often coriaceous; venation mostly closely reticulate; stipules intrapetiolar, broad, connate to form a tube, made up of 2 triangular parts joined by thinner tissue, undivided, persistent or deciduous. Flowers bisexual, heterostylous, 5-merous, in small subcapitate or somewhat elongated, occasionally 2-branched cymes; peduncles short or less often long and slender, strongly compressed, axillary or more usually supra-axillary; bracteoles present. Calyx: tube obconic or turbinate; limb cupular, truncate, sinuate or shortly 5-dentate, persistent. Corolla salver-shaped or somewhat funnel-shaped with short or elongated tube and densely hairy or less often glabrous throat. Stamens either included in throat or exserted; anthers linear-oblong, dorsifixed. Disc annular, thick. Ovary 2-locular; ovules solitary in each locule, pendulous from apex; style filiform; stigma divided into 2 linear, papillate branches or fusiform, bifid. Fruit subglobose, pea-like, sessile or pedicellate, 1(2)-locular, 1-seeded; endocarp chartaceous. Seeds pendulous, hemispherical or almost bowl-shaped, dorsally convex, ventrally deeply excavated; albumen fleshy; embryo small with a superior radicle.
Distribution: 
Species 15-20, widespread in trop. Africa and also in the Seychelles and Madagascar; sthn trop. Afr. 4, Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique.
Source: 
SSTA
Classification: 

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