Xylocarpeae

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Xylocarpeae

Description

Trees. Flowers without a gynophore. Petals free. Sta- minal tube urceolate or cupular, margin lobed; anthers 8–10. Capsule ± woody or leath- ery with a rudimentary columella. Seeds unwinged, with a corky or woody outer layer; cotyledons large, united; endosperm absent.

Distribution

tropics present
Two genera, tropics: Carapa (see Note 1 under Xylocarpus) and the following.

Citation

T.D. Penn. & Styles 1975 – In: Blumea: 524.
Noamesi 1958: Rev. Xylocarpeae, unpubl. thesis, Univ. Wisconsin: 103