Connarus

Connarus is a genus of plants in the family Connaraceae with a pan-tropical distribution.

Description

Plants in this genus are vines, shrubs or small trees. Leaves are compound, either trifoliate or imparipinnate. The inflorescences are panicles, usually or, individual flowers are bisexual, pentamerous, and covered with glands; petals are free of each other, there are ten stamens in two whorls, the inner whorl shorter, and one carpel. The fruit are flattened follicles, often with a at the base and a small beak at the apex, opening on a longitudinal suture. Seeds one, black with a fleshy yellow sarcotesta.

Connarus species are distributed throughout the tropics of Africa, Asia and the Americas, and extends into some temperate areas as well.

, Plants of [the World Online] accepts the following 106 species: