Kokoona
Thwaites
Evergreen trees, often buttressed, with yellow or grey bark; twigs flattened
at nodes. Leaves decussate, entire or crenate, petiolate, with small, filiform
or linear stipules. Flowers in axillary panicles or racemes, bisexual, 5-merous.
Sepals lobed. Petals contorted, slightly concave, sometimes punctate. Disc fleshy,
cupular, subentire. Stamens inserted inside the inner edge of the disc; filaments
fusiform; anthers with conspicuous connective. Ovary 3-locular; ovules 6-16
in each locule in two series. Fruits capsular, bluntly 3-angular, loculicidally
dehiscing, 3-valved. Seeds 6-10 in each locule, winged; wings very broad, oblong-
truncate.
Mayanmar, Sri Lanka, Malesia; 8 species, 2 in India.
Mayanmar, Sri Lanka, Malesia; 8 species, 2 in India.
KEY TO THE SPECIES
1a. Leaves entire, apex acuminate | 1. Kokoona littoralis |
b. Leaves serrate, apex rounded, oblong or acute | 2. Kokoona zeylanica |