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Pedalium Linn., Syst. Nat. ed. 10: 1123. 1759. C.B. Clarke in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 4:386. 1885; Cooke, Fl. Pres. Bomb. 2:412. 1905; Jafri, Fl. Kar. 308. 1966; E.A. Bruce in Turrill & Milne-Redhead, Fl. Trop. E. Afr. 6. 1953.
A branched annual with subsucculent stems; leaves exstipulate, petiolate, opposite or alternate. Flowers solitary, axillary, yellow, shortly pedicellate; pedicel with 2 basal glands. Sepals 5. Petals 5, connate. Stamens 4, free, didynamous. Carpels 2, syncarpous; ovary 2 loculed with 2-1 ovule in each. Fruit pyramidal, nut like with 4-2 seeds.
A monotypic genus in Tropical Africa, Madagascar and Tropical Asia.
Lower Taxon
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