Erinocarpus
Nimmo ex Graham
Trees; branchlets stellate-hairy. Leaves shallowly lobed, cordate, palmately
nerved. Flowers large, in terminal panicles and leaf-opposed cymes; pedicels jointed;
bracts elliptic, subfoliaceous. Sepals 5, free, hooded. Petals 5, free, clawed, pitted-glandular at base. Stamens many, arising from a raised receptacle, free; filaments undulate
above. Ovary 3 -
5-loculed, ovules 2 in each locule; style filiform; stigma minute. Fruits
woody, indehiscent, often 4-loculed, triquetrous, winged, prickly on the faces. Seeds
pendulous, one each locule.
Endemic to the Northern Western Ghats in India, monotypic.
Endemic to the Northern Western Ghats in India, monotypic.