Anthocarapa Pierre

Trees. Indumentum of simple hairs. Leaves paripinnate. Flowers unisexual (trees dioecious or monoecious), in axillary or supra-axillary thyrses. Calyx 4-or 5-lobed to the middle or more deeply. Petals (4) 5, free, imbricate, at least at apices. Staminal tube ± urceolate, margin crenulate; anthers 10, glabrous, inserted within tube throat, partly exserted. Disk obscure, thick, fleshy, annular or patelliform in male flowers, small, annular at the base of ovary in female flowers. Ovary (2-) 3-(or 4-)locular, locules uniovulate, placentation axile; stylehead discoid. Fruit a 2-, 3-(or 4-)valved capsule, (tardily) dehiscent loculicidally. Seed with non-vascularized sarcotesta; embryo with thick collateral cotyledons; radicle superior, included.