Munronia Wight

Shrubs or herbs, to 1 m high, with woody rootstock. Leaves crowded at ends of branchlets, 3-foliolate or imparipinnate; leaflets entire or coarsely crenate or serrate with an indumentum of simple 2-fid or stellate hairs. Flowers solitary or in a few-flowered axilary panicles, bisexual. Calyx 5-partite, somewhat foliaceous, persistent. Petals 5, spathulate, elongate, connate in lower half and adnate to staminal tube below. Staminal tube narrowly cylindrical, 10-toothed or-appendaged at apex, to 5.5 cm long; anthers 10, terminal, alternating with teeth, setaceous, apiculate, hairy. Disk tubular, entire, membranous, sheathing, glabrous. Ovary 5-loculed; locules with 2 superposed ovules; style slender, exceeding staminal tube; stigma capitate. Fruit a loculicidal capsule, 5-valved; locules 1- or 2-seeded; seeds plano-convex, shining, not winged, with pergamentaceous testa and a large membranous sarcotesta on the adaxial surface and around hilum; endosperm thin.

From India eastwards to Malesia, with ca 10 species; one in India.

List of Lower Taxa