Trichospermum Blume

Trees, stellate-hairy. Leaves simple, alternate, crenate-serrate, strongly 3-nerved at base; axils of primary nerves often bearded beneath; stipules caducous. Cymes axillary and tenninal, 2 - or 3-chotomous. Flowers bisexual and unisexual; pedicels often invlucate with small bracts. Sepals 5, free. Petals 5, free, often glandular at base. Stamens numerous, free, on a crenate disc; anthers suborbicular or oblong, versatile. Ovary pilose, 1- or 2-loculed; ovules 2-seriate, many in each locule. Capsules much compressed on both sides contrary to septum, usually acute or mucronate at tip, dehiscing loculicidally valves persistently united at base. Seeds oblong, densely pilose on margins.

Tropical America and Asia, ca 25 species; one in India.

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