4642.000 Mystroxylon Eckl. & Zeyh.

Description of the genus

Unarmed shrubs or trees. Stipules free, caducous. Leaves alternate. Inflorescence a dichasial cyme. Flowers bisexual. Sepals 5, united at base. Petals 5. Disk intrastaminal. Ovary superior, 2-3-locular. Fruit an indehiscent fleshy drupe. Seed 1, without an aril.

Derivation of name: from Greek: mystron meaning a spoon and xylon meaning wood, a translation of the vernacular name spoonwood

DRC: 1 taxon.

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Species	FZ divisions	Content
aethiopicum (Thunb.) Loes. subsp. schlechteri (Loes.) R.H. Archer		Description, Image

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