Mischocarpus
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Description
Shrubs or (large) trees (with a slender unbranched stem), monoecious (or dioecious in M. reticulatus?).
Leaves paripinnate, leaflets larger towards the top, 1-6-jugate, no pseudo-stipules or wings;
Inflorescences pseudoterminal, axillary, and ramiflorous thyrses, nearly always branching, branches erect to spreading;
Flowers unisexual.
Petals 0-5, minute to slightly longer than the calyx, apert, clawed or not;
Stamens (5-)8(-9), exserted;
Fruits a loculicid-ally dehiscent capsule, nearly always stipitate (only up to 1 mm high in M. paradoxus), not lobed, not winged, the cells about equally developed but the ovules abortive in (1 or) 2 cells, red, smooth;
Seeds (hanging by the pseudo-funicle):