Aphanamixis Blume

Trees or pachycaul treelets with cicatrose twigs. Indumentum of simple (in A. polystachya sometimes basally bifid and stellate) hairs. Leaves imparipinnate, leaflets opposite. Inflorescences axillary to supra-axillary, male flowers in panicles, female and hermaphrodite in long spikes or racemes, rarely panicles. Male flowers distinctly smaller than others. Calyx deeply 5-lobed, lobes imbricate. Petals 3, imbricate, united with staminal tube basally. Staminal tube globose to deeply cyathiform; anthers 3–8, glabrous, inserted within tube. Disk absent. Ovary 3-(or 4-)locular, each locule with (1)2 collateral to superposed ovules; style stout; stylehead conical to truncate, 3-angled or with impressions of anthers. Fruit a 2-or 3-(4-)valved, loculicidal capsule, locules 1-or 2-seeded. Seeds arillate, cotyledons plano-convex, collateral (?) united; radicle small, superior, included. Germination cryptocotylar; eophylls opposite, simple, toothed. 2n = 36, 76, c. 150.