Actephila Blume

Evergreen shrubs or trees, monoecious, glabrous or occasionally puberulous with simple hairs. Leaves long or short petiolate, entire, penninerved; stipules caducous. Inflorescences axillary or ramiflorous; bracts triangular or subulate. Male flowers: pedicellate; sepals 5 or 6, shortly connate at base; petals 5 or 6 or absent, shorter than sepals; disc extra-staminal, flat, entire or lobed along margins with the lobes episepalous; stamens usually 5, inserted on the disc, free or shortly connate; anthers orbicular; pistillode trifid. Female flowers: pedicellate; sepals and petals as in male; disc flat or cupular; ovary 3 (or 4)-locular; styles 3, free or shortly connate at base, each entire or bifid. Fruits capsular, verrucose or smooth; seed solitary in each cocci, 3-gonous, exarillate; testa thin, brittle; cotyledons thick and fleshy.

Asia and Australia, ca 20 species; one species in India.

List of Lower Taxa