Aspidopterys Juss. ex S.L.Endlicher

Lianas. Leaves and petioles glandless. Stipules on the twig between the leaf insertions, very small and caducous, or wanting. Inflorescences axillary, rarely terminal, panicle-like, flowers crowded at the top of the opposite lateral branches, sometimes only few buds developing into flowers, the others immaturely caducous. Bracteoles mostly inserted below the articulation of the pedicel, upper portion of the pedicel often lengthened in fruit. Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic, as a rule white. Sepals small, glandless. Petals ± oblong, not clawed, recurved after anthesis, thin, entire, glabrous, somewhat cucullate at the top. Filaments thin, sometimes connate at the base, glabrous; connective little developed and only dorsally visible. Ovary mostly glabrous, with 3 flat, already more or less winged sides; styles 3, free, diverging, slightly shorter than the petals, terete, persistent, stigmas capitate. Disk inconspicuous, later growing bowl-shaped with 3 acute lobes. Samaras often attached to a longer or shorter carpophore, the latter persistent, sustained by the disk-lobes at its base; lateral wing of each mericarp developed into an orbicular or oblong, membranous or coriaceous disk, with radial venation towards the margin; dorsal wing little developed; seed straight and linear.