Small trees or shrubs, sometimes armed. Leaves alternate, 1-3-foliolate, sometimes with a winged rhachis. Flowers solitary or in clusters, bisexual, (4-)5-merous. Stamens numerous, arranged in bundles. Ovary (4-)5-many-locular; loculi 4-8-ovulate. Fruit large, spherical, ovoid or obovoid, many-seeded. Worldwide: 20 species in S and SE Asia to E Australia Zimbabwe: 8 cultivated taxa. Insects associated with this genus: |
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