Turraea L.

Small trees or shrubs, with an indumentum of simple hairs. Leaves simple, entire or sometimes with repand-sinuate or crenate margins. Flowers solitary or in axillary or terminal clusters, bisexual; peduncles short with many small bracts. Calyx campanulate, 4 - 5-toothed. Petals 4 - 5, free, spathulate, elongate, reflexed, imbricate. Staminal tube cylindrical, elongate with short appendages at apex; anthers usually 10, sometimes 8, inserted near mouth, alternating with appendages, exserted. Disk annular, or obsolete. Ovary 5-or more-locular; locules 2-ovuled; style elongate, exserted; stigma capitate. Fruit a loculicidal capsule; valves 1- or 2-seeded; seeds oblong with a broad ventral hilum, hard, shining, arillate, endospermous.

Tropical and S.Africa, Madagascar, Mascarenes and tropical Asia to Australia with ca 60 species; one in India.

List of Lower Taxa