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.

List of Lower Taxa