Dioecious trees, with simple indumentum. Leaves alternate, opposite or in whorls of 3, digitately 3-8-foliolate, long-petiolate; stipules 0. Leaflets entire, stalked or sessile. Inflorescences cymose, axillary, solitary or in pairs; male inflorescences many-flowered; female inflorescences 1-3-flowered. Male flowers: sepals 5-8, unequal; petals 0; stamens 4-12, free; disk central, thick, fleshy. Female flowers: sepals longer and narrower than the male, persistent in fruit; ovary 2-3-locular with 2 ovules per loculus; styles 2-3. Fruits 2-3-locular, depressed ovoid-subspherical, tardily dehiscent into 2-3 valves. Seeds usually 3 per fruit, ± flattened. Derivation of name: 4 species in tropical Africa Malawi: 1 taxon. |
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