Arcangelisia Becc.

Lianas. Leaves palmately nerved at base with small papillose region on upper surface above insertion of petiole; hollow domatia with the aperture sometimes fringed with hairs present in the axils of the nerves and main veins, lamina other-wise glabrous. Inflorescences axillary or cauliflorous, paniculate with lateral branches spicate or subspicate. Male flowers sessile or subsessile; sepals 9-10, glabrous, the outermost 3-4 minute, larger inner sepals 3 + 3; petals 0; synandrium a sessile, globose cluster of 9-12 anthers. Female flowers (DIELS, l.c.) with sepals ± as in male; petals 0; staminodes present (? number); carpels 3, stigma broad. Infructescence with club-shaped unbranched carpophores. Drupes transversely subovoid or subglobose with style-scar lateral, large; endocarp not sculptured but bearing a layer (continuous or broken) of radially arranged fibres; condyle inconspicuous or absent; seed broadly ellipsoidal; endosperm deeply ruminate; cotyledons apparently divergent and much folded (according to BECCARI and MAINGAY).