Codiocarpus
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Description
Dioecious tree.
Leaves spirally arranged, entire, penninerved.
Inflorescence axillary, generally solitary, the one-bracteate peduncle with several dichotomously branched distal branches, each branchlet with a several-flowered compact cyme of sessile small flowers, which are articulated at the base of the calyx.
Petals 5(-6), valvate, apex minutely inflexed, shorter in the ♀ flower.
Ovary subcylindric (upper part curved and contracted), with a lateral oblong swelling;
Seed 1, with copious endosperm and a minute embryo.