Description:
Tall or medium-sized, buttressed trees. Leaves evergreen, acuminate; midrib and lateral nerves prominent beneath with tertiary venation densely reticulate; indumentum of simple, isolated, short, thick-walled hairs and with minute spherical glands on venation. Flowers small, in terminal and axillary panicles; sepals velvety pubescent; petals +/-glabrous. Receptacle produced into a thick, short androgynophore. Stamens many; anthers short, connectives without appendage. Ovary ovoid, pubescent, 1-locular above, with parietal placentation; ovules 6. Fruit ovoid, surrounded by 5 equal wings derived from accrescent sepals.
Distribution:
Species 3 or 4, trop. Africa; sthn trop. Afr. 2, Angola, Zambia.
Source:
SSTA
Classification:
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