Grandidiera Jaub.

Flacourtiaceae, H. Sleumer (Rijksherbarium, Leiden). Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1975

Habit

Shrubs or trees

Leaves

Leaves persistent, alternate, petiolate, entire or undulate, penninerved, stipulate

Flowers

Flowers in short axillary spike-like racemes; pedicels articulate at the base, elongate in the terminal bisexual flower, short in the lower ♂ ones; subtending bracts several, membranous, small Hermaphrodite flowers: sepals and petals as in the ♂ ones, though slightly larger; stamens less numerous (35–50); ovary unilocular, sessile, with 2–4 multi-ovulate placentas, shortly 4.6(–8)-winged; style short; stigmas (2–)3(–4), divergent, reflexed Male flowers: stamens numerous; filaments filiform; anthers subovate-oblong, dorsifixed near the base, longitudinally dehiscent; rudiment of ovary 0

Calyx

Sepals 3, imbricate, small

Corolla

Petals 5–7, imbricate, small

Male

Male flowers: stamens numerous; filaments filiform; anthers subovate-oblong, dorsifixed near the base, longitudinally dehiscent; rudiment of ovary 0

Hermaphrodite

Hermaphrodite flowers: sepals and petals as in the ♂ ones, though slightly larger; stamens less numerous (35–50); ovary unilocular, sessile, with 2–4 multi-ovulate placentas, shortly 4.6(–8)-winged; style short; stigmas (2–)3(–4), divergent, reflexed

Fruits

Fruit globular, woody, tardily dehiscent, with 4–6 (–8) short membranous crenate wings

Seeds

Seeds numerous, ovoid, small.