Christiana DC.
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Descripción
Trees; leaves large, long-petiolate, palmate-nerved; flowers rather small, cymose-paniculate, the panicles large, terminal; calyx campanulate, irregularly 3-5-lobate; petals 5, naked at the base; stamens numerous, free or obscurely 5-fasciculate, all fertile, inserted on a flat torus; carpels of the fruit 5 or fewer, free at maturity, subglobose, 2-valvate; seeds solitary, ascending, with crustaceous testa; endosperm carnose, the cotyledons large, foliaceous.A
Discusión taxonómica
The genus consists of a single species.A