Diploglottis
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Description
Trees, probably monoecious.
Leaves paripinnate, 4- or 5-jugate (Malesian species);
Inflorescences axillary, terminal ones together pseudoterminal, thyrsoid, mostly sparsely branched with divaricate branches, densely hairy like the twigs.
Flowers unisexual, actinomorphic or ± zygomorphic, white to cream.
Sepals 5, free or nearly so, equal, not petaloid, outside hairy, inside hairy or glabrous.
Petals 4 or 5, as long as or slightly longer than the calyx, relatively long-clawed, (sub)glabrous, inside with 2 hairy scales, crested or not.
Stamens usually 8, exserted;
Ovary slightly 3-lobed, sessile, densely tomentellous, 3-locular, each locule with 1 ovule;
Fruits capsular, 3-lobed, not stipitate, smooth, tomentellous, glabrescent or not, not winged, completely 3-celled, loculicidal, inside sericeous.
Seeds thick to thin lenticular, completely enveloped by a 2-lobed arillode, the latter without basal extension.