Synaptolepis

Oliv.
Source: 
SSA
Description: 
Shrubs, erect or scandent. Leaves alternate, membranous or subcoriaceous. Flowers solitary or fascicled in leaf axils, sessile or shortly pedicelled. Calyx 5-lobed; tube cylindric, at length swollen below, not articulated. Petals united into a short, erect, entire or obscurely 5-lobed ring at base of calyx lobes. Stamens 10, in 2 whorls in throat of calyx and not exceeding corolla; anthers with wide connective. Disc of minute scales or shortly cup-shaped and membranous. Ovary shortly stalked, 1-locular, with 1 ovule; style slender; stigma cylindric or capitate. Fruit dry, enclosed in persistent, +/- fleshy base of calyx.
Distribution: 
Species 7, Africa; 2 in sthn Afr., Northern Province and mainly KwaZulu-Natal.
Classification: 

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Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith