Description

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Growth Form: Shrubs to small trees, evergreen, hermaphroditic, unarmed, stellate pubescent.

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Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Blades palmately lobed. Margins entire to coarsely serrate. Petiolate. Stipules 2, awl–shaped, prominent, 7–8 cm.

Flowers: Flowers in inflorescence a terminal panicle of umbels, densely farinose stellate when young, glabrescent. pedicels not articulate below ovary. Flowers bisexual (perfect), actinomorphic. Calyx nearly obsolete. Corolla of 4(or 5) petals; petals valvate, abaxially tomentose. Stamens 4(or 5), distinct, inserted at edge of disk; anthers versatile, introrse, longitudinally dehiscent. Disk epigynous. Ovary inferior, 2-carpellate; carpels united, with as many locules; ovules pendulous, 2 per locule, 1 abortive; styles 2, free, erect at anthesis, later recurved.

Fruit: Drupes globose; slightly compressed laterally; exocarp fleshy. Seeds 1 per pyrene; laterally compressed; endosperm smooth; embryo small.

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