Intsia
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Description
Trees often with buttresses.
Leaves paripinnate.
Stipules intrapetiolar, connate.
Inflorescences terminal or axillary, simply racemose, often fasciculate, or paniculate; bracts caducous.
Flowers bisexual, zygomorphic.
Petals: only 1 fully developed, flabellate, lower half narrowed into a claw, the others rudimentary or absent.
Stamens 3 or very rarely 4 fertile; staminodes 4-7; filaments and staminodes connate at the base; anthers dorsifixed.
Ovary stipitate (stipe adnate to the hypanthium except the apical part), puberulous; style slender; stigma small, capitellate.
Seeds ovoid, oblong, discoid, or sublenticular, flattened, not arillate, scurfy, exalbuminous.
Distribution
from Madagascar, islands in Indian Ocean, tropical Asia, through Malesia to N Australia, Melanesia and Micronesia present
Species 2 or more, from Madagascar, islands in Indian Ocean, tropical Asia, through Malesia to N Australia, Melanesia and Micronesia. In Malesia 2 species.