Sterculieæ (sterkuliee)

pl. [NL. (A. P. de Candolle, 1824), ized by unisexual or polygamous flowers without petals, commonly with a colored calyx, and five to fifteen anthers adnate at the summit of a long or short column of united filaments, and either crowded or arranged in a definite series or a ring. It includes 8 genera, of which Sterculia is the type. They are natives mostly of tropical Asia and Africa, extending into Australia and Java. See Sterculia. sterelt. A Middle English form of steer1, steer2, stir1, stoor2.