Bennettiodendron Merr.

Trees or shrubs, dioecious; branchlets and peduncles girdled with perular bracts at base. Leaves spirally arranged, usually aggregated in distant groups, glandular-serrate, chartaceous, shiny, 3 - 5-pliveined at base, pinnately veined above, basal primary and secondary veins upturned, gradually diminishing apically to join superadjacent veins by a series of irregularly branched cross-veins and giving rise to branchlets to terminate in a gland beneath serrate teeth; petioles rather long, sometimes with two glands at apex; stipules minute. Flowers apetalous, small; bracteoles arranged in umbellate clusters on axillary and terminal divaricately branched panicles. Sepals 3 (-5), imbricate, caducous. Disc broken up into numerous small fleshy glabrous glands between stamens and staminodes. Male flowers: Stamens numerous; filaments filiform, pilose to about middle from base; anthers dorsifixed; pollen tricolporate, reticulate, subprolate. Ovary rudimentary. Female flowers: Staminodes numerous, about half as long as stamens, pilose at base. Carpels 3, connate into unilocular ovary with deeply intruding placentae; ovules 2 - 3, parietal; styles 3, diverging, caducous; stigma bilobed. Berry small, globose or subglobose, minutely reticulate.

Tropical rain forests of N.E. India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, S. China and Indonesia; ca 3 species, one in India.

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