Chydenanthus
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Description
Trees, bole fluted, modular.
Leaves simple, alternate, penninerved, glabrous;
Stipules caducous, minute, subulate or reduced to dots.
Inflorescences panicles, terminal or subterminal, many flowered, pulverulent to pubescent;
Petals 4, longer than calyx lobes, loosely attached to the staminal tube.
Stamens numerous, inflexed in bud, multiseriate, the inner ones shorter and sterile, the basal part connate into a tube, the entire tube caducous, glabrous;
Ovary inferior, biloculate, ovules ascendent, 2 in each cell, placentation central.
Fruits indehiscent, not winged, generally inserted at the terminal end of the peduncle, crowned by the persistent calyx;
Seeds single, hard and stone-like when dry;
Distribution
Andaman present, Asia-Tropical: Jawa (Jawa present); Lesser Sunda Is. present (Bali present); Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present; Sulawesi (Sulawesi present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), Lower Burma present, Nicobar Islands present, Sumbawa present
One species distributed from Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lower Burma to Malesia: Sumatra, Java, Celebes, Lesser Sunda Islands (Bali, Sumbawa), Moluccas and New Guinea.