Mortoniodendron Standl. & Steyerm.
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Descripción
Trees or shrubs, the pubescence scant, of stellate hairs; leaves alternate, subcoriaceous, penninerved, entire; flowers small, perfect, cymose-paniculate, the panicles terminal; sepals 5, valvate, densely stellate-tomentose outside; petals valvate, slightly shorter than the sepals; stamens numerous, all fertile, fasciculate, unequal; anthers 2-ceIled, longitudinally dehiscent, mucronate at the apex, the filaments short, free; ovary 5-celled, stellate-tomentose, the ovules numerous; fruit capsular, globose, 5-celled, the valves thick; seeds 2-3 in each cell. A
Discusión taxonómica
Three species are known, all Central American, ranging from Guatemala to Panama, one of them in Honduras and one in Panama.A