Trees or shrubs. Leaves distichous, pinnately veined to subtriplinerved; stipules fully amplexicaul, free. Inflorescences in the leaf axils or just below the leaves, discoid or subglobose to turbinate-capitate; bracts interfloral, peltate, marginal bracts often basally attached. Staminate flowers several to many; tepals 3–4, connate; stamens (1)2, inflexecl in bud; pistillode present. Pistillate flower 1, central, partly adnate to the receptacle; perianth 4-lobed; ovary adnate to the perianth. Fruit a drupe with an enlarged, fleshy, orange to yellow-coloured receptacle, crowned with the remnants of staminate flowers and bracts. Seed large, without endosperm; cotyledons thick, unequal.
Worldwide: Species 1, in Africa. Mozambique: 1 taxon. |
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