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Fayaz, F. (2011) Encyclopedia of Tropical Plants Firefly Books, New Zealand
Trees. Leaves spirally arranged or decussate, unifoliate or paripinnate; leaflets opposite to alternate, exstipulate; margins entire or wavy, leathery. Inflorescence racemes or panicles with few spreading branches, terminal, usually in upper leaf axils. Flowers regular; sepals 4 or 5-lobed, basally connate, equal persistent and recoiled after anthesis; petals 5, minute, broader than long, shortly clawed, concave, woolly ciliate, caduceus; disk complete, bi-lobed, adnate to base of calyx. Fruit variable, depressed-globose, indehiscent, fleshy or hard, sometimes bi-lobed. Seeds with a thin crustaceous tests, without aril. Worldwide: 8 species in tropical Africa, Madagascar, Sri Lanka and Malaysia. Mozambique: 1 taxon. |
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