Dictyoneura
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Description
Shrubs to medium-sized trees, monoecious.
Leaves spirally arranged, without stipules, paripinnate, 2-12-jugate.
Inflorescences axillary, often pseudoterminal, simple and raceme-like or ± strongly branched;
Flowers unisexual, actino-morphic.
Sepals 5 (or 6), imbricate, slightly connate at the base, suborbicular to subel-liptic, about equal or the inner- and/or outermost sepal distinctly smaller, persistent under the fruit.
Petals none.
Stamens (4-)5(-6), exserted in male flowers;
Ovary (sub)sessile), 2- (or 3-)celled, ± hairy, sparsely to densely scaly;
Ovules 1 per locule, axillary.
Fruits capsular, (sub)sessile, loculicidal, wall granular, inside ± fleshy with a thicker fleshy layer in a narrow to broad strip along the dissepiment, covering the inside of the valves for 30-100%.
Seeds ovoid to ellipsoid, 1 or 2 (or 3) per fruit;
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present, Bum present, C and S Celebes present, Ceram present, E Borneo present, Halmahera present, New Britain present, New Ireland present, Obi present, c. 15° N present, northernmost Polillo present
Malesia: 2, maybe 3 species, in E Borneo, Philippines (northernmost Polillo, c. 15° N), C and S Celebes, Moluccas (Bum, Ceram, Halmahera, Obi), and New Guinea (including also New Britain and New Ireland).