Description
Trees or shrubs with 2-lobate or 2-foliolate leaves.
Stipules deciduous, intrastipular trichomes ± well developed, sometimes spinescent.
Flowers bisexual or unisexual.
Petals usually 5.
Fertile stamens 0-10; anthers ellipsoid-oblong to linear, opening longitudinally.
Distribution
140 species; pantropical.
Citation
de Wit 1956 – In: Reinwardtia: 418.