Careya
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Description
Large trees.
Leaves spirally arranged, clustered at end of branches, glabrous, broadly obovate, margins serrate-crenulate, decurrent onto petiole.
Inflorescences terminal or lateral racemes to 20 cm long, erect, few-flowered.
Flowers sessile.
Petals 4, alternate with sepals.
Stamens numerous, inserted in 5-8 whorls, fused at base into a short tube, the innermost whorl staminodal;
Ovary inferior, 4(-5)-locular;
Fruits ovoid-globose, to 6 cm long.
Seeds numerous, embedded in a pulp;
Distribution
Afghanistan present, Andaman Islands present, Asia-Tropical: India present; Thailand (Thailand present), extreme north of Peninsular Malaysia present
Four species in Afghanistan, India and Andaman Islands to Thailand and one species reaching the extreme north of Peninsular Malaysia.