Source:
SSA
Description:
Trees or shrubs. Leaves not particularly crowded, secondary veins not conspicuously parallel; stipules present. Flowers axillary, pedicellate. Calyx 8-lobed, divided nearly to base, in 2 whorls. Corolla 8-lobed, each lobe with 2 dorsal appendages; appendages often in an outer row of 16 and petals in an inner row of 8. Stamens arising from throat of corolla tube; filaments usually shorter than the lanceolate, apiculate anthers; staminodes 8, entire or somewhat dentate, lacerate or fimbriate at apex, usually pubescent. Ovary 8-locular; ovules with basal attachment; style slender. Fruit 1-few-seeded. Seeds with small, circular, basal scar; endosperm copious; cotyledons thin. x = 12.
Distribution:
Species +/- 40: +/- 20 species in Africa, 15 in Madagascar, 4 in the Mascarenes, 1 in the Seychelles, and 1 in Asia and the Pacific; 3 in sthn Afr., Botswana, Northern Province, North-West, Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Swaziland, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape.
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