Description:
Dioecious trees or treelets; indumentum of simple hairs. Leaves pinnate, with a dormant terminal bud or more rarely a terminal leaflet; leaflets 8-15, oblong-elliptic, entire. Calyx irregularly lobed. Petals 5, free from staminal tube. Staminal tube cylindric; anthers 10, arising in throat of staminal tube and completely included. Disc annular at base of ovary. Ovary 3-5-locular; locules with 1 or 2 ovules; style head discoid with a small central depression. Fruit a cleistocarp, indehiscent or breaking up after falling. Seeds large, completely covered by a thin yellow aril.
Distribution:
Species 40, 35 in the Neotropics, 5 in trop. Africa; sthn trop. Afr. 1: Guarea mayombensis Pellegrin, Angola.
Source:
SSTA
Classification:
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