4297.000 Flueggea Willd.

Dioecious, rarely monoecious, trees or shrubs. Stipules present. Leaves alternate, simple, entire. Flowers axillary; males numerous in fascicles, females few or solitary. male flowers: sepals (4-)5(-7), imbricate; petals 0; disk glands (4-)5(-7); stamens (4-)5(-7); pistillode large, 2-3-partite. Female flowers: sepals and petals as male; disk annular, entire or shallowly lobed; ovary (2-)3(-4)-locular; ovules 2 per loculus; styles (2-)3(-4). Fruit subspherical, 3-lobed, fleshy and indehiscent or dry and dehiscent. Seeds (1-)2 per loculus.

Derivation of name: for Johannes Flügge, 1775-1816, German physician, botanist and plant collector.

Worldwide: 14 species in tropical regions.

Burundi: 2 taxa.