82. Rhaphidophyton Iljin

Rhaphidophyton Iljin, Tr. Bot. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR I, Fl Sist. Vyss. Rast. 3: 157 (1936).

Small shrub. Leaves alternate, stiff. Flowers in the axils of bracts, subtended by leaf-like bracteoles, these overtopping the flowers; flowers bisexual; perianth 5-lobed, the lobes with a wing-like outgrowth below the middle in fruit; stamens 5, alternating with the semi-orbicular lobes of the hypogynous disk; anthers with appendages sagittately split to the base. Seeds horizontal, rarely vertical, occupying only the lower part of the fruit. One sp., R. regelii (Bunge) Iljin, C Asia.