Forchhammeria

(Forchhammeria)

Description

They are small trees or shrubs, usually glabrous; plants dioecious or rarely polygamous . Leaves palmed 1 or 3-foliolate, whole leaflets, petioles without pulv-nulos, the stipules subulate, deciduous. Inflorescences racemous to panniculate, subterminals in the armpits of the leaves or under the leaves in the old vegetation, small and deciduous bracts or absent, the tiny flowers, actinomorfas; Calyx 4-12-lobed, less than 1 mm long; Corolla absent; Male flowers with 12-30 stamens, very short filaments, 1-2 mm long, adhered to a fleshy disc; Female flowers with 3-14 staminodes; Ovary, with 2 stigmatic wolves. Small, globose fruits, generally with 1 seed (or if with 2 seeds, then the fruits in pairs of balloons), indehiscent, The wall of the fruit becoming soft but not juicy;

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order:Capparales
Family:Capparaceae
Genus:Forchhammeria
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