Trichoscypha

Breteler, F. J., 2001, The genus Trichoscypha (Anacardiaceae) in Upper Guinea: A synoptic revision, Adansonia (3) 23 (2), pp. 247-264 : 248

TRICHOSCYPHA

Trees, usually small and slender, branched or not, shrubs or lianas. Exudate little, white, black when dry. Leaves alternate, imparipinnate, rarely simple, often crowded at the top of the trunk or of the branches. Inflorescence many-flowered, terminal or subterminal, or borne below the leaves on the main stem or branches. Flowers unisexual, dioecious, rather small (≤ 7 mm), usually 4-merous, rarely 5-, very rarely 6-merous, sessile or pedicellate, the female flowers generally less numerous and with longer pedicels than the corresponding male flowers. Sepals united at base. Petals free, imbricate to valvate, erect, spreading or reflexed. Stamens the same number as the petals and alternate with them, inflexed in bud. Disc present, glabrous or variously hairy, in the male flower sometimes surrounding a small pistillode, in the female flower at the base of the ovary, sometimes surrounding it partly. Staminodes present in the female flower. Ovary glabrous to hairy, crowned by 3-4(-6) styles with entire to shallowly bilobed stigmas, or stigmas ± sessile, 1-locular, with one pendulous ovule. Fruit fleshy, 1-seeded, rarely dehiscent.

TYPE. — Trichoscypha mannii Hook. f.