Agonandra Miers ex Benth. & Hook.F.

Dioecious trees, the bark generally corky. Leaves alternate, simple, thin, usually small, ovate to elliptic, petiolate. Inflorescences axillary, racemose, bracte-ate. Flowers small, green, pedicellate. Calyx small, usually crateriform, (5-or) 4-lobed or undulate. Petals 4 (or 5), free, valvate, especially caducous in pistillate flowers. Stamens 4 (or 5), antipetalous, the filaments filiform, the anthers ovoid; absent in pistillate flowers. Disc annular or cupuliform, irregularly lobed, more or less connate at the base, generally erect. Pistil 1, superior, the ovary 1-loculate, the style generally obsolete, the stigma 4-lobed. Fruit a berry. In the past pistillate flowers of this genus have been characterized by the absence of petals. Examination of the single collection from Panama clearly shows the presence of petals and also reveals their caducous nature.