Sandoricum Cav.

Trees, with an indumentum of simple hairs. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets coriaceous; lateral ones short-petiolulate; terminal one long-petiolulate. Flowers in axillary panicles, yellow or whitish. Calyx cup-shaped, almost truncate or shallowly 4 - 5-lobed. Petals 4 - 5, free, spreading, imbricate. Staminal tube almost as long as petals, terminating in 10 short 2-lobed appendages; anthers 10, glabrous, inserted opposite appendages, included. Disk cup-shaped, free, coarsely toothed along margin, sheathing ovary and style base. Ovary adnate to calyx below, 4 - 5-locular; locules with 2 collateral owles; style columnar, nearly as long as staminal tube; stigma 4 - 5-lobed, on a thick cylindrical base. Fruits 1 - 5-locular; pyrenes 1(-2)-seeded; seeds reniform, laterally compressed; sarcotesta small and confined to apex of seed or completely surrounding it.

Indo-Malesian region to New Guinea, with ca 5 species; one in India.

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