Ternstroemia
Description:
Evergreen trees. Leaves with entire, inrolled margins. Flowers sometimes unisexual through reduction, solitary, on long glabrous peduncles. Petals opposite sepals or irregularly disposed. Stamens in 2 whorls, +/- aggregated into clusters, +/- free; connective produced into an apiculus. Ovary 2(3)-locular or falsely 4-6-locular; style simple, with capitate, faintly bilobed stigma. Fruit indehiscent or opening irregularly from top, ovoid, abruptly acuminate at apex. Seeds few, ellipsoid, with thick testa; endosperm usually reduced; embryo curved horseshoe-like, oil-rich.
Distribution:
Species 85, tropics, 2 in Africa; sthn trop. Afr. 2, Angola, Malawi. Formerly sometimes placed in Ternstroemiaceae.
Source:
SSTA
Synonym(s):
Adinandrella Exell: 30 (1927); Martins: 63 (1994).
