Cipadessa
Blume
Shrubs or small trees with an indumentum of simple hairs. Leaves imparipinnate;
leaflets opposite or nearly so. Flowers in axillary, peduncled, corymbose panicles, bi-and unisexual on the same individual (polygamous). Calyx 5-toothed. Petals 5, free,
valvate. Stamens 5 -
10; filaments connate near base into a short staminal tube,
terminating in a pair of narrowly lanceolate or filiform appendages; anthers acute or
apiculate, short, hairy, inserted between appendages. Disk cup-shaped, adnate to base
of staminal tube. Ovary 5(-6)-locular; locules with 1 or 2 collateral ovules; style short,
stout, columnar; stigma swollen, capitate, 5-lobed. Fruit a small, globular drupe with 5
pyrenes; each pyrene with 1 or 2 seeds; seeds resemble flakes of an orange, exarillate.
Indo-Malesian region, with 3 species; one in India.
Indo-Malesian region, with 3 species; one in India.