Description
Trees, dioecious.
Leaves brittle when dry, lower surface pale, papillose, dots absent;
Inflorescences (synflorescences) below the leaves, a compound panicle-like short-shoot 1-5 cm long, ending in a vegetative bud;
Flowers long pedicellate, bracteole absent.
Fruits ovoid-ellipsoid, 4-5.5 cm long, woolly tomentose;
Distribution
Asia-Tropical, Papua New Guinea present
Malesia: Papua New Guinea; one species.
(see p. 5).
Morphology
1 Because the compound inflorescence is a short-shoot, with a vegetative terminal bud, the inflorescence can be named a synflorescence.
2 The deeply hollowed-out subglobose synandrium, in which the anthers curve in at the apex, is reminiscent of many species of Horsfieldia.
