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Byng, J.W. (2014) The Flowering Plants Handbook Plant Gateway Limited, Hertford, UK
Dioecious trees or shrubs. Leaves simple, alternate (in ours); leaf base often asymmetrical; margins entire or toothed; sometimes aromatic (mustard or peppery odour); stipules small. Inflorescence axillary fascicles or solitary flowers, sometimes cauliflorous in Drypetes. Flowers unisexual; actinomorphic. Perianth 1-whorled imbricate, often unequal. Ovary superior; carpels fused. Fruit a green to brown drupe, sometimes with stellate hairs. Comment: This small family until recently formed the tribe Drypeteae of the subfamily Phyllanthoideae in Euphorbiaceae sensu lato. Worldwide: 3 genera and c. 215 species in Southeast Asia and Africa. Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated genus and 1 cultivated taxon. |
No image of a cultivated species but there is an image of a native or naturalised species |
| Genus | Content |
| Drypetes Vahl | Description |
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