Haplocoelopsis

F.G.Davies
Description: 
Shrubs or small trees with dense leafy crown; probably monoecious. Leaves pinnate; leaflets entire, lowermost ones reduced, stipule-like, one of the pair inserted on or shortly above petiole, sometimes caducous. Inflorescence axillary, racemose, slender, simple or branched. Flowers regular. Sepals 5, united shortly at base; lobes unequal, oblong-ovate. Petals 5, elliptic-lanceolate to ovate, exceeding sepals at maturity, scale 2-lobed, half as large as limb. Disc a complete ring, flat, broad, glabrous. Male flower: stamens 9, glabrous. Female flower: staminodes 8, curved in bud, glabrous; ovary 2-lobed, 2-locular; style truncate, with 2 stigmatic grooves. Fruit subglobose, grooved.
Distribution: 
Monotypic: Haplocoelopsis africana F.G.Davies, tropical east Africa and Angola. The Angolan material may represent a separate, closely related taxon.
Source: 
SSTA
Classification: 

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