Dioecious shrubs or small trees with stellate hairs. Leaves simple, alternate, long-petiolate with 3-veined from the base. Inflorescences axillary, long-pedunculate, cymose, few-flowered. Male flowers: calyx deeply 5-lobed or sepals free; petals 5, free; disk-glands 5; stamens 10-25, inner united in a column; anthers erect in bud. Female flowers: sepals and petals as for male flowers; disk annular; ovary 3-locular; styles 3. Fruit 3-lobed, dehiscent. Worldwide: 3-4 species in tropical Africa Mozambique: 1 taxon. |
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