| # The genera of Leguminosae-Caesalpinioideae and Swartzieae |

L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz

### Apaloxylon Drake

Neoapaloxylon Rauschert

Type species: A. madagascariensis Drake del Castello.

Habit and leaf form. Deciduous trees, or shrubs; unarmed.

The leaves compound; pinnate; paripinnate; with rachides subcylindrical to deeply grooved adxially. The leaflets many per leaf to few per leaf (10–16 or 24–38, with red-brown gland dots); opposite or sub-opposite to alternate; shortly petiolulate; without noticeably twisted petiolules; basally cuneate and somewhat asymmetrical; without a continuous marginal nerve (but with intramarginal nerves). Stipules minute. Stipels absent.

Inflorescence and floral morphology. The inflorescences axillary and terminal; branched; of cymose units; panicles (often compound, with the flowers opening simultaneously). The flowers not distichous. Bracts absent at anthesis. Bracteoles present; paired, small, not enclosing the flower buds; absent at anthesis; not valvate; free.

The flowers small; hermaphrodite; more or less actinomorphic to slightly irregular; not pentamerous throughout; departing from pentamery in the calyx and in the corolla; white or green, or coloured (greenish, creamy white or - in A. mandrarense - red). Hypanthium present; very short to long; cupular to obconical, sometimes long-tapered basally. The perianth exclusively sepaline. Calyx present; 4 (the sepals gland dotted); covering the rest of the flower in bud; polysepalous; more or less regular; members imbricate. Corolla absent. Disk present and conspicuous (towards the apex of the hypanthium). The androecium comprising 10 members; not declinate; members all free of one another; members exserted on filiform filaments, all more or less equal in length to markedly unequal; comprising only fertile stamens. Fertile stamens 10. Anthers attached well above the base of the connective (the didynamous anthers very small); dehiscing laterally. Ovary stipitate; free (central). Stigma minute, not dilated. Ovules numerous (8–16).

Fruit, seed and seedling. Fruit indehiscent (samaroid); without markedly twisting or enrolling valves; winged proximally to the single seed (resembling an Acer fruit, but the one seed distal); 1 winged. Seeds with a straight or slightly oblique radicle.

Transverse section of lamina. Mesophyll secretory cavities (gland-dots) common.

Pollen ultrastructure. Tectum punctate; rugulose punctate. Length of colpi greater than one half pole to pole distance.

Species number and distribution. 3 species (A. madagascariense, A. mandrarense and A. tuberosum). Madagascar.

Tribe. Detarieae.

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Cite this publication as: ‘Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M.J. 1993 onwards. The genera of Leguminosae-Caesalpinioideae and Swartzieae: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval. In English and French. Version: 4th August 2019. delta-intkey.com’.

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