Description
Stipules, stipular scars, and stipular glands usually present.
Inflorescences erect, paniculate, cauliflorous or terminal;
Flowers bisexual or male and female.
Ovaries 1-15 per flower, sessile.
Seeds often imbedded in the pericarp, giving the pod a segmented appearance internally.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Lesser Sunda Is. present; Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present; Sulawesi (Sulawesi present), Australasia, Solomon Islands present
About 15 species, of which 11 in Malesia: Lesser Sunda Islands, Celebes, Moluccas, New Guinea, Solomon Islands (1) and Australia (6).
Notes
See for the Keys to the species: I: flowering, and II: fruiting material.
