Crossosoma Nutt.
Descripción
Shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate, often clustered on short branches, simple, entire. Flowers terminal or axillary; sepals 5, 4-5 mm long; petals 5, 9-15 mm long; stamens numerous, usually 15 or more; gynoecium stipitate, 1-5 free carpels; stigmas capitate, oblique. Fruits horizontally wrinkled or reticulately marked; adaxial suture cartilaginous. Seeds 4-many with a whitish or yellowish fimbriate aril. -2 spp.; (Greek: krossoi = fringe + soma = body, because of the aril).A
Forma de crecimiento
Árbol/arborescente, ArbustoA