Kleinhovia L.

Trees. Leaves simple, ovate, acuminate, entire, palminerved. Flowers bisexual, zygomorphic, in terminal, lax cymose panicles; bracteoles small; ensiform remote from calyx. Sepals 5, nearly free, deciduous. Petals 5, unequal, upper with longer claw, margins involute. Staminal column elongated, adnate to the gynophore, slightly curved at apex, dilated above into 5-fid, campanulate cup, 3 anther bearing segments alternate with antherless teeth; anther cells divaricate. Ovary inserted within the dilated apex of the staminal column, 5-lobed, 5-locular; styles slender, at length divided. Capsules membranous, inflated, pyriform or turbinate, 5-lobed, loculicidally 5-valved. Seeds solitary, rarely 2 in each locule, tubercled; endosperm scanty or absent; cotyledons convolute.

Tropical Asia and E. Tropical Africa, monotypic.

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