Delarbrea
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Description
Glabrous unarmed shrubs or small trees.
Leaves large, imparipinnate, with a stipular sheath;
Flowers in umbellules grouped in large terminal panicles;
Petals 5, imbricate, obovate, narrowed towards the base.
Stamens 5, filaments stout, anthers dorsifixed.
Ovary inferior, 2-celled, disk fleshy, obconic, crowned by two erect styles with clavate stigmas.
Fruit ovoid, crowned by the small calyx lobes and the recurved style arms (which eventually fall);
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: New Guinea present, Australasia: Queensland (Queensland present ‒ present), East Malesia present, Lesser Sunda Is present, Melanesia present, New Britain present, New Caledonia present, New Hebrides present, Solomons present
Queensland, Melanesia and East Malesia, 3 or 4 spp., from the Lesser Sunda Is. eastwards to New Guinea (also New Britain), Queensland, Solomons, New Caledonia, and New Hebrides. In Malesia 1 sp.
Notes
The corolla is distinctive, the petals being strongly imbricate and narrowed towards their insertion. The fruit also has a characteristic appearance, since the calyx and stylopodium, although persistent, do not enlarge as in most other araliads. The fruit, therefore, is a smooth ellipsoid berry without a prominent rim around the apex.