Description:
Trees with stilt-roots. Leaves peltate with 8-18 radiating segments; in young plants lamina changing from entire to palmatisect, and from basally attached to peltate. Male flowers in many-flowered, globose glomerules borne on the ultimate dichotomies of cymosely branched inflorescences; tepals 2-lobed; stamen 1. Female inflorescences very many in dense clavate, capitate, somewhat flattened spikes; perianth tubular, usually 2-lobed; ovary free. Fruit free, borne inside slightly enlarged, fleshy, greenish perianth; endocarp crustaceous; mesocarp mucilaginous; exocarp membranous. Seed small; endosperm present.
Distribution:
Species 2, trop. Africa; sthn trop. Afr. 1: Musanga cecropioides Tedlie, N Angola.
Source:
SSTA
Classification:
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