Lepiderema
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Description
(Small) trees.
Branchlets terete, more or less straight, pith narrow.
Leaves paripinnate, pseudostipules absent;
Inflorescences pseudoterminal or axillary or ramiflorous thyrses, branches with scale-like hairs;
Sepals 5, pet-aloid, connate at base, biseriate.
Petals 5;
Stamens 8;
Ovary 3-locular, one ovule per locule;
Fruits capsular, obovoid, loculicidal, not winged, stipe slender, outside and inside glabrous.
Seeds obovoid, covered by an arillode;
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: New Guinea present, Australasia
8 species: 6 in Australia, 2 in Malesia: New Guinea.