Stemonurus Blume.

Trees, sometimes with buttresses or pneumatophores. Leaves entire, dark and glossy above, pale beneath, alternate, coriaceous, petiolate; petioles stout. Inflorescence axillary. solitary, peduncled, umbels or cymes, bearing flowers in groups distally on each branch. Flowers sessile, bisexual; bracteoles at the base of umbels, sometimes persistent. Calyx cup shaped, margin entire or 4 - 5-lobed, persistent. Petals 4 - 5, white, fragrant, free or connate at base, oblong, apex inflexed. Stamens 5, free, fleshy; filaments flat, dilated above, hairy below the anthers; anthers 2-lobed, oval-elliptic, basifixed, parted below. Disc cup shaped, lobed. Ovary ovoid, tapering into a short style, 1-chambered, with 2 pendant ovules; stigma very small. Drupes ovoid-ellipsoid or oblong, dark red to purple below, whitish yellow to green above.

Sri Lanka, Indo-China, Malesia; 12 species, 1 in India.

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