Tall trees, with buttresses. Leaves alternate, petiolate, entire, penninerved, with an extra-floral nectary at the base of the midrib on the upper surface; stipules caducous. Flowers in large terminal panicles, radially symmetric, bisexual; sepals 5, petals 5, white; fruit surrounded by the 5 acrescent sepals. Comment: A recent proposal to validate the name Trillesanthus has been challenged. A ruling will be made at a specialist meeting. Zambia: 2 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| acuminata (Gilg) R.E. Fr. [VU] | N,W | Description, Image |
| macroura Gilg | N,W,C | Description, Image |