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Triplochiton K.Schum.

Genus

Angiosperms > Malvales > Malvaceae

Characteristics

Flowers bisexual, in reduced axillary cymes or many-flowered panicles; bracts present and also 3 bracteoles forming a deciduous involucre beneath the calyx.
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Fruit of 5 samara-like, single-seeded carpels each with a unilaterally produced wing.
Ovary of 5 coherent carpels and with 5 coherent styles; ovules c. 12, 2-seriate.
Petals 5, with a contorted aestivation, tomentose, with a basal claw.
Stamens many; staminodes 5, ovate, with a contorted aestivation.
Trees with petiolate, palmately lobed leaves; stipules present.
Calyx campanulate with 5 valvate lobes.
Androgynophore conspicuous.
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Foliage retention deciduous
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Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:26093-1
WFO ID wfo-4000039287
COL ID 63VT9
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Synonyms

Triplochiton

Lower taxons

Triplochiton scleroxylon Triplochiton zambesiacus
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