Ixonanthes
Jack
Trees, glabrous. Leaves alternate, simple, entire or crenate-serrate, reticulate:
stipules minute or absent. Flowers small, in axillary, dichotomously branched, corymbose panicles. Sepals 5 -
6, shortly connate at base. Petals 5 - 6, contorted, persistent hardened round the fruit. Stamens 10 -
20, inserted on outer rim of perigynous, annular
or cupular disc. Ovary 5 - 6-locular or 10 -
12-locular by false septa, ovules 2 in each
locule; styles simple; stigmas capitate-lobed. Capsules oblongoid or conical, coriaceous
or woody, septicidal, opening inward. Seeds winged or crowded with a mitriform aril;
endosperm fleshy; cotyledons foliaceous.
In Tropical and Subtropical Asia and New Guinea, ca 12 species; one in India.
In Tropical and Subtropical Asia and New Guinea, ca 12 species; one in India.
