Argomuellera Pax

Monoecious or subdioecious shrubs or small trees with a simple indumentum. Leaves alternate, very shortly petiolate or subsessile, stipulate, elobate, dentate to subentire, eglandular, penninerved. Inflorescences unisexual or bisexual, racemose, axillary, solitary or subfascicled, ± lax. Male flowers usually in fasciculate clusters along the axis, often with one female flower per cluster, or else the clusters all ♂ or all ♀. Male flowers: calyx ovoid or globose in bud, later valvately (2–)3–4(–5)-partite, the lobes reflexed; petals 0; disc-glands numerous, free, disposed amongst the stamens; stamens 15–120, ± erect in bud, filaments free, the anthers small, basifixed, introrse, the connective broad; pistillode 0; receptacle hemispherical. Female flowers: sepals 5–6(–9), indistinctly biseriate, imbricate; petals 0; disc annular; ovary 3-locular, with one ovule per locule; styles 3, slightly connate at the base, continuous with the carpels, undivided, rather stout. Fruits 3-lobed, dehiscing septicidally into 3 bivalved cocci leaving a persistent columella; endocarp thinly woody. Seeds globose, ecarunculate, albumen fleshy; cotyledons broad, flat.