Description :

• Trees up to 20 m tall, monoecious; with greyish tomentose, glabrescent branchlets
• Leaves paripinnate, 2- or 3-jugate, up to 150 mm long, tomentellose, glabrescent
• Flowers unisexual; in compact, racemose, terminal or axillary clusters up to 100 mm long
• Sepals 5, short, somewhat connate
• Petals 0
• Disc small, 5-crenate
• Stamens (6)8; filaments short, arising within disc
• Ovary 3-locular, 3-sulcate; with a single basal ovule in each locule
• Fruit usually of 1 developed, globose, golden yellow mericarp dehiscing along a vertical line
• Seeds ± 10 mm diameter, covered by an arillode

Nomenclature:

• Stadmannia Lam.
  • Lamarck: 443, t. 312 (1793)
  • Exell: 533 (1966) as Stadmania
  • Davies & Verdcourt: 32 (1998) as Stadmania

Distribution & Notes:

• Global : Species 1: Stadmannia oppositifolia Poir. subsp. rhodesica Exell, eastern tropical and subtropical Africa, Madagascar and Réunion
• Southern Africa : Extends into the Kruger National Park in Northern Province and Mpumalanga