Female: protogynous; female flowers solitary,
usually one node basal to male inflorescences or sometimes separate; Male: racemose-cymose, composed of several cymose partial
inflorescences each branching dichasially in the basal part and monochasially in the
more distal part, or purely monochasially, each with several to numerous flowers
Peduncle
Female: to c. 1mm long; Male: to 3 cm long
Bracts
minute, caducous
Pedicels
Male: 2–5 mm long, greenish, whitish-greenish, or white tinged with pink, glabrous; Female: 3–5 mm long, greenish, glabrous
Bracteoles
Male Flower Type
Single
Male Flower Size
3–7 × 3–7 mm
Male Tepals
2
Male Flower Colour
white, whitish-greenish, white tinged with pink or pinkish, ovate to suborbicular, 3–7 × 3–7 mm, margin entire, apex rounded, glabrous
Androecium
23–27 stamens, yellow, filaments c. 0.5 mm long, slightly fused at the very base, anthers to c. 1 mm long, oblong or narrowly obovate, dehiscing through unilaterally positioned slits c. 1/2 as long as the anthers
Female Flower Size
3–7 × 3–5 mm
Female Tepals
5
Female Flower Colour
whitish-greenish, subequal, 3–7 × 3–5 mm, ovate to elliptic, glabrous
Gynoecium
ellipsoid, 6.5–7 × 3–5 mm (excluding the wings), locules 3; style c. 4 mm long, basally fused, 3-branched, each stylodium bifurcate in the stigmatic region, stigmatic surface a spirally twisted papillose band, yellowish
to orange.
Placentation
axile, bilamellate
Ovary Wings
3, equal, base rounded, apex subtruncate to
truncate
Fruit Type
pedicels 6–7 mm long, curved downwards at apex; seed-bearing part ellipsoid, 8–12 × 4–7 mm (excluding the wings), glabrous dehiscent, splitting along the wing attachment, wing shape as for ovary, up to 10 mm at the widest point (apically to subapically). Seed: barrel-shaped, c. 0.2–0.3 mm long
