Description:
Trees, shrubs or undershrubs, sometimes polygamous. Leaves glabrous or with simple hairs. Flowers bisexual, or sometimes unisexual, solitary or in 2-several-flowered axillary or extra-axillary fascicles, leaf-opposed or supra-axillary; bracts and bracteoles present. Sepals 3, free or united at base, valvate or very slightly imbricate, much shorter than petals. Petals 6, free, valvate, in 2 equal or +/-unequal whorls. Stamens usually many, free or united at base, cuneate, with flat-topped or slightly convex connectives. Carpels many, free; ovules 1 basal or 2(-5) lateral; style nearly always absent; stigma subcapitate, globose or irregularly shaped. Monocarps few to many, globose to ovoid, indehiscent, mostly stipitate. Seeds horizontal.
Distribution:
Species 100, Old World tropics; sthn trop. Afr. 2, Angola (Cabinda), Zambia (exotic), Mozambique.
Source:
SSTA
Classification:
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