Dimocarpus Lour.

Trees or shurbs. Leaves paripinnate; petiole slightly swollen at base, exstipulate; leaflets opposite or alternate; membranous or thin coriaceous, glabrous or somewhat hairy, entire, repand or serrate to dentate, blunt at apex to acuminate, often mucronate, base more or less oblique. Inflorescence terminal, thyrsoid. Flowers unisexual, yellowish to white. Sepals 5 - 6-lobed. Petals 5, rarely 6. Disc 5-lobed, densely hairy. Stamens 6 - 10, slightly exserted or not; filaments very slender, thread like. Ovary sessile, broadly cordate, tuberculate. Fruits globular to broadly ellipsoid.

South and S.E. Asia, Sri Lanka, Eastern Malesia; 5 species, 1 in India.

List of Lower Taxa