Harpephyllum

Bernh.
Source: 
SSA
Description: 
Trees, dioecious, glabrous. Leaves alternate, imparipinnate; leaflets entire, falcately narrowly ovate. Flowers in axillary panicles. Male flowers: calyx 4- or 5-lobed; petals 4 or 5; stamens 7-10; ovary vestigeal. Female flowers: disc saucer-shaped, with somewhat crenate rim; staminodes conspicuous; ovary 1(2)-locular, 1 locule often reduced, +/- ellipsoid, with thick walls, with a solitary, pendulous ovule; styles 4 or 5, separate, with truncate stigmas. Fruit a fleshy drupe with bony endocarp; stone 1(2)-locular with 1 operculum per locule, concealed by ridges. Seeds reniform, flattened.
Distribution: 
Species 1: Harpephyllum caffrum Bernh., sthn Afr.: Northern Province, Mpumalanga, Swaziland, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape; in riverine forests.
Classification: 

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