Alectryon subg. Synalectryon
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Description
Inflorescences axillary, a thyrse, hairy, sparsely branched.
Sepals 5, connate for halfway or more, hairy on both sides.
Petals 5 (or absent in male flowers), the blade rounded, ciliolate, scales woolly.
Stamens in male flowers 8 (always?) (to fewer in female flowers), filaments and anthers glabrous.
Fruits short-stipitate, broadly ovoid, slightly lobed, the base slightly concave, the apex apiculate, dehiscence septifragal;
Seeds with a sarcotesta around the hilum and the basal half enveloped by the cup-shaped arillode.