STAPHYLEACEAE
Morphological description
Trees.
Leaves
Leaves decussate, dentate, small glands on top of rachis, stipules fused leaving an annular scar. Usually pinnate (leaflets 3-11), rachis swollen at nodes.
Inflorescence
Inflorescence.
Flowers
Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic, 5-merous; sepals and petals free, imbricate; disk present, ovary superior, usually 3-celled.
Fruit
Fruit a drupe.
Seed
Seed.
Different from: Bischofia (Euphorbiaceae): leaves spiral, small stipules. — Sambucus (Caprifoliaceae): sympetalous, ovary inferior. — Cunoniaceae: stamens in two rows, ovary usually 2-locular.
Distribution: A mainly northern hemisphere family; in Malesia only Turpinia (East Asia, Malesia), lowland and montane rain forest.
Notes: Whitmore (1972) has placed Bischofia in the family Staphyleaceae.
Literature: B.L. van der Linden, Fl. Males. I, 6 (1960) 49-59; T.C. Whitmore, Tree Fl. Mal. 1 (1972) 446-448.
Spot characters (Van Balgooy): Turpinia 32, 48, 49, 104; T. stipulacea 37.
Illustrations: Fig. 161. Turpinia borneensis (Merr. & Perry) Linden: a. habit; b. open nerves and venation; c & d. flower; e. fruit; f. stamen.
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