Description:
Evergreen, dioecious trees; branchlets lepidote, but soon glabrescent. Leaves simple, very coriaceous, elliptic to ovate, or elliptic-oblong, margin entire or undulate; stipules present. Flowers unisexual, in axillary, many-flowered panicles; bracts and bracteoles present. Calyx campanulate, 5-lobed. Petals absent. Male flowers: androphore with 5 anthers at its apex and with a vestigial style protruding through it. Female flowers: perianth as in male; ovary of 5 connate carpels; styles connate, short; stigmas 5, thick. Fruitingcarpels woody, indehiscent, keeled along back, 1-seeded. Seed without endosperm; cotyledons very thick.
Distribution:
Species 30, trop. Africa, Indomalesia to Australia and New Caledonia; sthn trop. Afr. 1: Heritiera littoralis Aiton, coastal Mozambique.
Source:
SSTA
Classification:
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