Aporrhiza Radlk.

Small to medium-sized, monoecious trees. Leaves with 2–7(–11) pairs of entire coriaceous leaflets. Inflorescence terminal or axillary, paniculate. Flowers regular; sepals 5, nearly free, densely pubescent; petals 5, clawed, with a small to equally large bilobed scale, shaggy-hairy in the lower half; disk glabrous, lobed. Stamens (6–)7–8; filaments folded in bud; anthers oblong, sagittate at the base, glabrous. Ovary bilobed, bilocular; style short. Fruit with 2 (or 1 by abortion) diverging compressed dehiscent mericarps, externally pubescent with either grey, green or golden hairs, glabrous and reddish inside. Seeds black, bean-shaped, more than half covered by a yellow or orange aril.