Apodytes
E. Meyer ex Arn.
Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, petiolate, coriaceous, entire, penninerved,
nigrescent. Flowers small, bisexual, in terminal or axillary corymbose panicles.
Calyx minute, cup-shaped, 5-toothed, persistent. Petals 5, free or connate at
the base only, linear, spreading, glabrous, valvate, obscurely keeled, apex
inflexed. Stamens 5; filaments attenuated, smooth; anthers oblong, sagittate,
dorsifixed, dehiscent longitudinally. Disc absent. Ovary oblique, gibbous; style
short, curved and thick; stigma small. Drupe obliquely ovoid, compressed,
with lateral appendage. Seed, compressed.
Africa, S.E. Asia, Malesia, Queensland; 2 species, 1 in India.
Africa, S.E. Asia, Malesia, Queensland; 2 species, 1 in India.