Khaya

Large trees, monoecious. Leaves paripinnate; leaflets entire. Flowers unisexual; in large panicles. Calyx 4- or 5-lobed almost to base, imbricate. Petals 4 or 5, contorted, erect in open flowers. Staminal tube urceolate, bearing 8-10 included anthers or antherodes towards apex and terminated by 8-10 suborbicular, emarginate or irregularly lobed, overlapping appendages alternating with anthers or antherodes. Disc in male flowers cushion-shaped, fused to base of pistillodes, less conspicuous in female flowers. Ovary 4- or 5-locular, each locule with 12-18 ovules; style head discoid with crenulate margin, upper surface with stigmatic ridges. Fruit an erect, subglobose, woody, septifragal capsule opening by 4-6 valves from the apex. Seeds 8-18 per locule, narrowly winged all round margin. x = 10 or 25 (50).