4889.000 Alphitonia Reissek ex Endl.

Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate; lamina coriaceous, pinnately nerved, abaxially usually pale to white or reddish-brown tomentose. Inflorescence thyrses, branched, relatively open. Flowers perfect; sepals 5; petals 5; nectary disk annular, filling the floral tube. Fruit partly enclosed by the adherent nectary disk and floral tube, exocarp spongy, somewhat brittle, endocarp crustaceous, usually dehiscing along the ventral suture. Seeds with a thin reddish aril, often completely enclosing the seed.

Worldwide: 10-20 species in Malesia, Eastern Australia, Pacific Islands.

Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon.