Description:
Glabrous shrubs or small trees; branches weakly 2-winged. Leaves simple, entire. Inflorescences: flowers in few- or many-flowered axillary fascicles. Flowers bisexual. Calyx cup-shaped with entire or undulate margin. Petals 5, valvate, free except at base, pubescent on inner face. Stamens 10, in 2 whorls: large stamens alternipetalous, smaller ones epipetalous; filaments short, pressed against petals; anthers introrse, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 3-locular, each locule with 1 ovule; placenta central; style conical, ending in a 3-lobed stigma. Fruit a drupe surrounded by strongly accrescent calyx. Seed ellipsoid, with yellowish oily endosperm.
Distribution:
Species 35, mostly tropical America, 3 in W trop. Africa; sthn trop. Afr. 2, Angola.
Source:
SSTA
Classification:
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