Aphanamixis Blume

Trees with an indumentum of simple, very rarely 2-fid or stellate hairs. Leaves pinnate; leaflets opposite. Flowers unisexual (then plants dioecious) or bisexual, in axillary or supraaxillary inflorescence; male flowers small, in panicles; female and bisexual flowers larger, in long spikes, racemes or rarely panicles. Calyx deeply 5-lobed; lobes imbricate. Petals 3, united below with base of staminal tube, imbricate. Staminal tube globose or deeply cyathiform, entire or lobed at margins; anthers 3 - 8, inserted within staminal tube, included or partly exserted, glabrous, sometimes appendaged. Staminodes indehiscent, without pollen. Disk absent. Ovary usually 3-locular; locules usually 2-ovuled; style stout; stigma conical or truncate, 3-angled or with impression of anthers. Pistillode with or without vestigial ovules. Fruit a loculicidal capsule; valves 1- or 2-seeded; seeds arillate.

Indo-China and Indo-Malesia to the Solomon Islands, with 3 species; one in India.

List of Lower Taxa