Syringodium
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Inflorescence cymose, the lower branches dichasial, the higher ones monochasial, so forming an anthela of drepania. ‘Flower’ enclosed by a reduced leaf, the sheath of which is elliptic to ovate and inflated, up to 9 mm long and 3 mm wide, and whose lamina is only 5-20 mm long;
Fruit with stony pericarp, obliquely ellipsoid to obliquely obovoid, quadrangular in cross section and dorsally with an inconspicuous 4-7 mm long median ridge;