2066.000 Stenocarpus R. Br.

Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, scattered or spirally arranged; lamina simple, variously lobed or compound. Inflorescence terminal or in upper leaf axils, umbellate or sometimes together in umbels or racemes; bracts caducous or absent. Flowers zygomorphic; tube opening on lower side, all 4 segments finally separating, limb globular, recurved; anthers broad, sessile. Fruit follicles, mostly narrowly oblong or cylindric (flattened and semi-circular in 1 species), splitting down 1 side. Seeds numerous, in 2 rows, highly compressed, winged.

Derivation of name: from Greek: stenos meaning narrow and carpos meaning a fruit, a reference to the characteristics of the seed capsules.

Worldwide: 25 species in the western Pacific.

Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon.