Euphorianthus
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Description
Tree, monoecious.
Leaves paripinnate, 4-9-jugate;
Inflorescences axillary, terminal ones together pseudoterminal, thyrsoid.
Flowers unisexual, regular.
Sepals 5, free, equal, slightly imbricate, not petaloid, densely short-hairy on both sides.
Petals 5, as long as to longer than the sepals, outside just above the base with a few hairs, inside with 2 recurved, woolly, crestless scales shorter than the petal.
Stamens (6) 7 or 8, much exserted;
Ovary densely short-hairy, 3-locular, sessile;
Fruits capsular, subglobular, not winged, loculicidal, smooth, densely short-hairy outside, pericarp thin-fleshy, c. 1 mm thick, incompletely 3-locular, the valves inside sericeous, septa nearly glabrous.
Seeds obovoid, with a 2- (or 3-)lobed sarcotesta around the hilum.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Philippines (Philippines present), E Malesia present, New Hebrides present
Monotypic; E Malesia from the Philippines to the New Hebrides.