Melieae

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Melieae

Description

Trees. Leaves pinnate or bipinnate. Flowers hermaphrodite or male. Staminal tube cylindrical, lobed. Fruit a drupe. Seed exarillate; endosperm thin; cotyledons colla- teral; radicle superior, exserted.

Distribution

Old World tropics present
Two genera, in the wild state restricted to theOld World Tropics..

Citation

T.D.Penn. 1975 – In: Blumea: 462.