Scorodocarpus
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Description
Trees.
Leaves spiral, penninerved.
Flowers bisexual, in short racemes.
Petals 4 or 5, hypogynous, narrow, coherent by their edges until full anthesis, brush-like woolly inside.
Stamens 8 or 10, adnate to the lower half of each petal in pairs, the uppermost part of the filaments remaining free as are the linear-elongate anthers.
Ovary superior, imperfectly 3-4-celled, with 1 (uni- or bitegmic?) ovule pendent from the top of the almost free placenta into each cell;
Seed 1;