Description:
Tall, glabrous trees. Leaves alternate, simple, entire, petiolate; stipules interpetiolar, soon caducous. Flowers in subumbellate, pedunculate cymes. Calyx campanulate, with 5 valvate sepals. Petals (4)5, free, concave, unguiculate, with indistinct nectariferous areas near base on ventral face. Stamens 10-12(?15), all fertile; filaments fused at base into a very short tube; anthers basifixed, apiculate, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 2-locular, with 1 pendent, axile ovule per locule; style very short; stigma capitate, 2-lobed. Fruit probably a capsule.
Distribution:
Species 2, trop. Africa; sthn trop. Afr. 1: Pinacopodium congolense (S.Moore) Exell & Mendonca, Angola.
Source:
SSTA
Synonym(s):
Nectaropetalum Engl. in part; Exell: 50 (1927).
Classification:
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