Chrysobalanus
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Description
Shrubs or small trees.
Leaves glabrous on both surfaces, without stomatal crypts.
Stipules small, connate-axillary, caducous.
Inflorescence terminal or axillary cymules or a panicle of cymules.
Flowers hermaphrodite.
Petals 5, longer than calyx lobes, not clawed.
Stamens 15-26, all fertile, inserted on margin of disk;
Ovary inserted at base of receptacle, densely pilose;
Fruit a small fleshy drupe, epicarp smooth and ridged, endocarp hard, thin, glabrous on interior, with 4-8 prominent longitudinal ridges which correspond to lines of fracture for seedling escape.