Description:
Trees or shrubs, usually completely glabrous. Leaves petiolate to sessile and amplexicaul; lamina with margin serrate to ciliate or entire; stipules entire, not striate, coriaceous, free or +/- united intrapetiolarly, caducous or +/- persistent. Inflorescence paniculate to racemose or umbellate or rarely reduced to 1 or 2 flowers, terminal or axillary, sometimes at base of current year
Distribution:
Species +/- 150-200, tropics of E and W hemispheres; sthn trop. Afr. +/- 12, Angola, Zambia.
Source:
SSTA
Synonym(s):
Gomphia Schreb.; Phiri (Unpublished) as synonym. Campylospermum Tiegh.; Phiri (Unpublished). Rhabdophyllum Tiegh.; Phiri (Unpublished).
Classification:
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