Pterocymbium R. Br.

Trees. Leaves simple, broad, entire or lobed with 3 or more basal nerves, simple or stellate-hairy; stipules lateral, subulate, caducous. Flowers polygamo-monoecious appearing before the leaves at the apices of branchlets umbellately arranged in large branched panicles. Calyx 5-lobed, divided nearly to the middle, turbinate. Petals absent. Male flowers: stamens on a staminal column; antehrs 10 or 8 in a single whorl, annulately coherent, covering the abortive ovaries. Female flowers: carpels 3 - 6, free. Follicles 1 - 6, stipitate, boat-shaped with a pouch-like bulging at base, membranous, dehiscing long before maturity. Seed 1, basal.

Southeast Asia, New Guinea to Fiji Islands, ca 5 species; one in India.

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