Kopsia
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Description
Shrubs or small trees, buttresses absent.
Branchlets terete to winged;
Leaves opposite;
Inflorescence terminal;
Sepals erect;
Stamens inserted around the middle of the tube to near the tube throat, very rarely near base, not exserted from throat;
Ovules 2 in each carpel although only ever one develops.
Fruit of paired drupes, more rarely solitary, ellipsoid to falcate, flattened to various degrees (hardly at all in K. arborea), usually with spur-like appendages facing inwards towards each other, rarely absent.
Seeds curved, broader at one end, other end acuminate.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical, from Southern China and Burma to northern Australia and Vanuatu present
23 species from Southern China and Burma to northern Australia and Vanuatu; in Malesia 19 species.
Citation
Blume 2004 – In: Harvard Pap. Bot. p 92
G. Don 1837 – In: Gen. Hist. p 100
D.J. Middleton 1999 – In: Fl. Thailand. p 60
A.DC. 1844 – In: Prodr. p 351
Blume 2004 – In: Tree Fl. Sabah & Sarawak. p 35
Backer & Bakh.f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java. p 232
Benth. & Hook.f. 1876 – In: Gen. Pl. p 701
Pit. 1933 – In: Lecomte, Fl. Indo-Chine 3. p 1132
Pichon 1949 – In: Mém. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. p 171