Dioecious or monoecious, evergreen trees. Leaves rounded to broadly cuneate at the base, minutely punctate beneath; main lateral nerves faint, in 5-10 pairs; tertiary nerves reticulate. Inflorescences capitate; flowers densely clustered in subspherical heads in the leaf axils. Flowers unisexual. Male flowers: perianth funnel-shaped, 3-4-lobed; stamen filaments fused into a column; anthers 3-4, joined to the column. Female flowers: perianth as in the male; stigma sessile. Fruits clustered on a receptacle, ovoid, with a thick cartilaginous pericarp, dehiscent. Aril almost completely enveloping the seed, lobed at the apex or cup-shaped and entire. Endosperm not ruminate. Worldwide: 2 species in west and tropical Africa Zambia: 1 taxon. |
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