Source:
SSA
Description:
Trees or shrubs; indumentum of simple, glandular and tufted-stellate hairs. Leaves 2- or 3-pinnate; leaflets crenate or serrate. Flowers bisexual and male on same individual (polygamous); in panicles. Petals imbricate. Staminal tube narrowly cylindrical; anthers 10, shortly apiculate, alternating with a pair of narrowly deltate appendages. Disc annular, crenulate, free from ovary and staminal tube. Ovary with 4-8 locules, each with 2 superposed ovules; style head capitate with 4-8 short, erect or incurved stigmatic lobes. Fruit a 3-8-locular drupe; locules usually 1-seeded. Seeds without wing or aril. x = 7 (polyploidy).
Distribution:
Species 1: * Melia azedarach L. in sthn Afr., referred to as Seringa or Persian Lilac; widely planted as ornamentals, and in places it is naturalised and has become a serious invader.
Classification:
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