Cuviera

DC.
Description: 
Small trees or shrubs, unarmed or sometimes spinose. Leaves opposite, often large, mostly +/- oblong or elliptic, petiolate, usually coriaceous and persistent; stipules small, basally +/- connate, often acuminate, deciduous. Flowers bisexual or sometimes sterile, in subsessile or pedunculate, many-flowered axillary cymes; bracts and bracteoles linear to lanceolate or elliptic, often leaf-like and accrescent. Calyx: tube obconic or turbinate, sometimes 3- or 4-angled; limb tube +/- suppressed; lobes 3-6, linear to ovate, often leaf-like and accrescent, mostly longer than corolla, persistent. Corolla funnel-shaped, campanulate or barrel-shaped, retrorsely hairy or bristly inside but throat glabrous, outside glabrous or pilose; lobes 5 or 6, spreading or reflexed, elongate, mostly caudate-acuminate, sometimes very markedly so. Stamens 5, arising in throat; anthers exserted. Disc depressed, lobed. Style thick, narrowed at both ends, stiffly pubescent to glabrous, sometimes with a conspicuous globular swelling near base; pollen presenter cylindric, mitriform or peltate, 2-10-grooved. Ovary (1)2-5-locular; ovules solitary in each locule, pendulous. Fruit drupaceous, often large, ovoid or subglobose, sometimes obscurely angled, with 1-5, 1-seeded pyrenes.
Distribution: 
Species +/- 20, trop. Africa, mostly western and central; sthn trop. Afr. 4, Angola, Malawi, Mozambique.
Source: 
SSTA
Classification: 

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