Macphersonia Blume

Small trees or shrubs, dioecious in the Flora area. Leaves pinnate (not in East Africa) or bipinnate; leaflets entire. Inflorescence a paniculate or unbranched thyrse. Flowers regular; sepals 5, free, imbricate; petals 5, small, clawed, infolded at the lateral margins to produce 2 scales; disk circular, flat, barely lobed. Stamens 7–8; filaments folded in bud; anthers sagittate at the base; staminodes similar with shorter filaments. Ovary 3-locular, spherical; style 3-furrowed. Fruit a spherical capsule without exterior dehiscence lines, splitting into 3 valves (but material from our area indehiscent or only partially splitting at apex). Seeds 1–3 per capsule, each largely covered by a fleshy aril.