4393.000 Necepsia Prain

Trees with a simple indumentum, stipules. Buds often scaly. Leaves alternate, petiolate, simple, crenate-serrate to subentire, penninerved, sparingly gland-dotted on the lower surface; petioles often pulvinate. Inflorescences axillary, solitary or congested, pedunculate or sessile, spicate, racemose or subpaniculate; bracts rigid, more or less scarious. Male flowers shortly pedicellate; calyx closed in bud, ovoid, apiculate, later splitting into 4–5 valvate lobes; petals absent; stamens many, inserted on a globose receptacle. Female flowers subsessile or very shortly pedicellate; sepals (4)5(6), imbricate, persistent; petals absent; disk hypogynous, annular or cupuliform, entire or more or less crenulate, thick, pubescent or setose; ovary 3-celled, with 1 ovule per cell. Fruit tricoccous, or dicoccous by abortion, dehiscing septicidally into 3 bivalved cocci; endocarp thinly woody. Seeds subglobose.

Worldwide: Three species in tropical Africa and Madagascar.

Zimbabwe: 1 taxon.