Adinandra Jack

Small, evergreen shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, petiolate or subsessile, coriaceous, shallowly serrate. Flowers axillary, solitary or in pairs, bisexual, bracteate, bracteolate. Sepals 5, imbricate, persistent, accrescent. Petals 5, connate at the base, glabrous or sericeous outside. Stamens 15 - 60, 1 - 5 seriate, often 1 4-adelphous, adnate to the base of petals; filaments united, rarely free, unequal when more than 1-seriate, pubescent or glabrous; anthers basifixed, long apiculate, extrorse, hispid, rarely glabrous. Ovary 3 - 5 or rarely 2 - 4 -loculed; ovules many in each locule; styles 10, elongate, entire or shortly 3 - 5-fid; stigmas entire or lobed. Fruits globose, indehiscent. Seeds many, small, scrobiculate, albumen fleshy.

Tropics and subtropics of Indo-Malesia, except a few outside, ca 80 species; one in India.

List of Lower Taxa