Cubilia
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Description
Trees medium-sized, monoecious.
Leaves spirally arranged, paripennate, 3-7-jugate, without pseudo-stipules, glabrous, neither petiole nor rachis winged.
Inflorescences terminal or pseudo-terminal, cymules many-flowered, bracts inconspicuous.
Flowers unisexual, regular.
Petals 5, included in the calyx, hardly clawed, sericeous on both sides, the margin sometimes slightly inflexed just above the base but without a clear scale.
Stamens 5 (or 6), hardly exserted;
Fruits 2-parted, the parts obovoid, loculicidal, glabrous, densely aculeate, pericarp coriaceous, glabrous inside.
Seeds attached basally, up to about halfway enveloped by a thin-fleshy ± entire arillode, hilum large, nearly orbicular.