Chisocheton sect. Holopentas
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Description
Trees or treelets, pachycaul to slender leptocaul, usually with white latex.
Leaves pseudogemmulate.
Inflorescences axillary or supra-axillary.
Petals in 1–2 whorls, imbricate to valvate.
Staminal tube lobed or not, anthers glabrous, locellate.
Ovary 2–9(–l l)-locular.
Fruit laticiferous.
Seeds sarcotestal.
Distribution
Indochina throughout Malesia to New Guinea present
14 species,Indochina throughout Malesia to New Guinea
Taxonomy
Chisocheton macrophyllus is better placed in this section than in the last one, where it is found in Mabberley, op. cit. 344. Miquel’s sectional name is employed here, as it is clear from his; remarks under Dysoxylum setosum Miq. (op. cit. 14) that his § is meant to signify a section and is not rankless as hitherto held. (Type, here selected: Chisocheton ceramicus).
The section can be divided into two series, though C mendozae and C grandiflorus (Kurz) Hiern from Burma and Thailand are links.