Triphasia Lour.

Shrubs or small trees; armed with slender, straight, axillary spines. Leaves alternate, simple or trifoliolate; petioles short, wingless; leaflets soft, profusely gland-dotted. Flowers solitary or in groups of 2 or 3 in leaf axils, fragrant. Calyx 3 - 5-lobed; lobes small, green. Petals 3 5, glandular, imbricate, white. Stamens twice the number of petals; filaments linear, sometimes broadened at base; anthers linear-oblong. Disk annular, fleshy. Ovary ovoid or ellipsoid, 3 - 5-loculed with 1 or 2 ovules in each locule. Berries ovoid or subglobose, sometimes apiculate, reddish-orange or crimson-red when ripe, glandular; seeds 1 - 3, green, embedded in a mucilaginous matter, polyembryonic as in T. trifolia.

Tropics and subtropics of S.E. Asia, Malesia, Philippines and New Guinea; 3 species, one in India (widely cultivated).

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