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CAMPTOLEPIS Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE]

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1998) Author: DAVIES & B. VERDCOURT
Names
CAMPTOLEPIS Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE], in E. & P. Pf., Nachtr. 3: 207 (1907) & in E.P. IV, 165: 1326 (1933); Capuron in Mém. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nat., Paris, 19: 108 (1969); Friis & Vollesen in K.B. 40: 860 (1985) Hypseloderma Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE], in E.P. IV, 165: 886 (1932)
Information
Small trees. Leaves pinnate; leaflets entire, leathery, glabrous. Inflorescence borne on the previous season’s wood, consisting of axillary fascicles of short cymes. Flowers regular; sepals 5, petaloid, concave; petals 5, of unequal size, scales present, entire to completely divided into 2; disk lobed, glabrous. Stamens 5–13. Ovary 3–5-locular. Fruit (where known) a drupe or berry, indehiscent. Seeds 1–3, enclosed in a fleshy aril.
Range
A genus of 4 species in Madagascar and one also extending to the E. African coast.
CAMPTOLEPIS Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE]
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