Myrianthus

P.Beauv.
Description: 
Trees or shrubs, often with stilt-roots. Leaves with lamina basally attached, palmatifid. Male flowers in spike-like to globose glomerules borne on ultimate to more proximal branches of repeatedly dichotomously branched inflorescences; perianth of (3)4 +/-imbricate tepals; stamens 3 or 4; filaments free or basally connate. Female flowers basally connate, in several- to many-flowered globose-capitate inflorescences; perianth tubular, 2- or 3-lobed; ovary free. Fruit with fleshy exocarp adnate to enlarged fleshy, yellow to orange-red fruiting perianth; endocarp woody. Seed large, without endosperm.
Distribution: 
Species 7, trop. Africa; sthn trop. Afr. 3, Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique.
Source: 
SSTA
Classification: 
MORACEAE

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