Micromeles
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Description
Unarmed trees or shrubs, deciduous.
Leaves simple, with the main nerves terminating in the serrate margin.
Stipules free.
Inflorescence a terminal, panicle-shaped, compound raceme.
Flowers bisexual, 5-merous.
Stamens c. 20.
Ovary inferior, apex covered by the hypanthial disc, 2-5-, most often 3-celled, styles as many as cells, usually connate at base, ovules 2 per cell.
Fruit a pome, exocarp usually lenticellate, mesocarp hard and dry, endocarp thin.
Seeds several, testa rather thin, endosperm absent, embryo with flat cotyledons. — Figs, 14e, 15e, 16.
Distribution
SE and E Asia present, W Malesia present
Less than 15 species, in SE and E Asia, one species also in W Malesia.