Deciduous trees. Leaves alternate, imparipinnately bi-or tripinnate.
Inflorescence axillary panicles. Flowers zygomorphic, bisexual, red or white.
Calyx cup shaped, 5-cleft; segments petaloid, reflexed. Petals 5, free, unequal;
upper two smaller; lateral ascending; anterior larger. Stamens 5, declinate,
opposite to petals, alternating with staminodes, inserted on the edge of disc;
filaments villous and thickened at base; anthers dorsifixed, monothecous. Ovary
stipitate, superior, 1-loculed; style slender, tubular; stigma perforated. Fruit
capsular, elongated, angled or ribbed, beaked. Seeds many, large, 3-winged
or wingless; embryo straight, oily; endosperm mostly lacking.
Monogeneric, Widely introduced; ca 14 species, 2 in India.
Literature. QAISER, M. (1973): Flora of West Pakistan 38: 1-4. VERDCOURT, B. (1985). A synopsis of the Moringaceae. Kew Bull. 40(1): 1-23.
Monogeneric, Widely introduced; ca 14 species, 2 in India.
Literature. QAISER, M. (1973): Flora of West Pakistan 38: 1-4. VERDCOURT, B. (1985). A synopsis of the Moringaceae. Kew Bull. 40(1): 1-23.
