Rhigiocarya

Miers
Description: 
Glabrous lianes; branchlets slender with long internodes. Leaves simple, broadly ovate, cordate at base, peltate. Inflorescence cymes. Male flowers: sepals 6, outer 3 shorter than inner 3; petals 6; stamens 6, outer 3 free, introrse, inner 3 with connate filaments, extrorse, anthers with longitudinal dehiscence. Female flowers: sepals and petals as in male; staminodes 0; carpels 3. Drupe ovoid to ellipsoid; endocarp bony, echinate; condyle forming a cavity. Seeds: endosperm ruminate; embryo subreniform, cotyledons foliaceous, divaricate. x = 12.
Distribution: 
Species 2, tropical equatorial Africa; sthn trop. Afr. 1: Rhigiocarya racemifera Miers, Angola (Cabinda).
Source: 
SSTA
Classification: 
MENISPERMACEAE

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