Albertisia Becc.

Woody climbers. Leaves elliptic, penninerved; subbasal nerves 1 - 2 pairs; petioles swollen at both ends; petiole scars prominent, discoid. Male flowers in axillary or ramiflorous cymes or fascicles; sepals 6, in 2 whorls; outer 3 minute, triangular; inner 3 connate, tubular, fleshy, corolliform; petals 3 or 6, fleshy, minute; stamens 18 - 24, connate; anthers 2-loculed, transversely dehiscent. Female flowers: sepals and petals as in male; carpels 4 - 6, elongate-ovoid; style subulate. Drupes ellipsoid; style-scar near the base. Seed straight or slightly curved, ellipsoid; embryo straight, ellipsoid; endosperm absent.

Tropical and subtropical Africa and India; ca 12 species, one in India.

List of Lower Taxa