''Allophylus decipiens'' (
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Cape Province
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Eswatini
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, along the escarpment forest of
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, including
Soutpansberg
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and in
Mozambique
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. There are some 219 species in the genus of ''
Allophylus
''Allophylus'' is a genus within the plant family Sapindaceae.
A list of species (incomplete):
* '' Allophylus agbala'' Hauman
* '' Allophylus aldabricus'' Radlk.
* '' Allophylus bullatus'' Radlk.
* '' Allophylus chartaceus '' (Kurz) Radlkofe ...
''.
It has a pale grey bark and glabrous, trifoliolate leaves, which may be deeply to shallow lobed. Its fragrant flowers are small and whitish in clusters of three in dense axillary racemes up to 6 cm, or in 2-3 branched panicles, the fertile flowers being few in a panicle, otherwise male. Sepals greenish-white glabrous, petals as long as the sepals, fringed; stamens longer, filaments hairy at the base. Fruit of 2 cocci or 1 by abortion. Fruit is near-spherical and some 6 mm in diameter, maturing to bright red. Wood white, close-grained and hard.
References
External links
SANBI distribution map'The Nomenclature of Allophylus species in South Africa' - B. de Winter
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