Gloeocarpus
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Description
Tree.
Branchlets terete, sinuous in appearance because of phyllotaxis, smooth, sericeous when young.
Leaves paripinnate, without pseu-dostipules;
Inflorescences ramiflorous, branching in axil, occasionally along rachis;
Flowers apparently bisexual but presumably functionally male or female, zygomorphic.
Sepals 5, imbricate, free, 2 outer ones smaller than 3 inner ones, inside and outside mainly basally sericeous, punctate.
Petals 5, hardly clawed, pilose, punctate, (lower part of margins folded inwards);
Stamens 7 (or 8?);
Fruit an obovoid capsule, loculicidal, subcircular in transverse section, hardly stipitate, without wings, rough, not warty, outside and inside glabrous, black when dry, rather woody.
Seeds subbasally attached on a funicle-like structure, obovoid, triangular in transverse section;