Christiana DC.

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Christiana DC.

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

Bibliografía

A. Standl. & Steyerm. 1949: Flora of Guatemala Fieldiana: Botany, 24, VI