Koompassia
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Description
Trees, deciduous.
Leaves distichous or spiral, imparipinnate.
Stipules free, very small and caducous.
Inflorescences axillary or terminal, paniculate; bracts and bracteoles minute, inconspicuous, usually caducous; pedicels very short or absent.
Petals 5, more or less equal in shape and size.
Stamens 5, free, more or less equal in length; filaments very short, glabrous; anthers basifix, opening with apical and basical pores, both pores connected by a thin (nearly) dehiscent rim and sometimes appearing to be longitudinally dehiscent.
Ovary sessile or subsessile, 1-ovuled; style and stigma rather short and small.
Seeds strongly laterally compressed, exalbuminous.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), Malay Peninsula, present
A small genus of 3 species in Malesia: Sumatra, Malay Peninsula,, Borneo, Philippines, New Guinea.