Hugonia
L.
Scandent or straggling shrubs, often tomentose; lateral branches short and modified
as coiled hooks. Leaves alternate, entire, crenate or serrate, penninerved, stipulate.
Inflorescence cymose, terminal or axillary or flowers solitary or fascicled. Sepals 5,
imbricate, unequal. Petals 5, yellow, contorted, hypogynous, fugacious. Stamens 10, 5
longer alternating with 5 shorter, connate at base into a short tube. Ovary 5-locular;
ovules 2, collateral in each locule; styles 5, filiform; stigmas capitate, lobed. Fruits
drupaceous, globose, fleshy. Seeds compressed.
Tropical Asia and Africa, ca 65 species; 2 in India.
Tropical Asia and Africa, ca 65 species; 2 in India.
KEY TO THE SPECIES
| 1a. Leaves elliptic or lanceolate, crenate; lateral nerves 16 - 19 pairs | 1. Hugonia belli |
| b. Leaves elliptic-obovate or obovate-oblong, entire; lateral nerves 8 - 14 pairs | 2. Hugonia mystax |
