Chukrasia
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Description
Deciduous trees.
Leaves paripinnate with terminal spike, imparipinnate and bipinnate with incised or lobed leaflets in juveniles, rarely retained at maturity.
Petals 4 or 5, free, contorted and much longer than calyx in bud.
Staminal tube cylindrical, somewhat narrowing distally, margin entire to crenulate; anthers attached to margin.
Ovary flask-shaped, 3–5-locular, each lo- cule with numerous ovules; stylehead capitate with 3–5 stigmatic ridges.
Capsule ovoid or ellipsoid, woody, opening by 3–5 valves from the apex, the valves splitting into an outer and inner bifid layer; columella with 3-5 sharply angled ridges, extending to apex of capsule; seed scars conspicuous.
Seeds 60–100 per locule, wings terminal, arranged laterally in tiers in two ranks; endosperm present; cotyledons subcircular; radicle oblique- ly exserted.