Baloghia Endl.

Shrubs or trees, evergreen, perennial, dioecious or monoecious; stems and foliage with clear to brownish latex. Indumentum of simple, multicellular trichomes; glandular trichomes absent; stinging trichomes absent. Stipules absent. Leaves alternate or opposite, petiolate to sessile, elobate, penninerved, entire, glands absent or present at lamina base. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, racemose or solitary. Flowers uni-or bisexual and androgynous in bracteate clusters. Male flowers pedicellate; calyx lobes 4–6, imbricate, shortly connate and ± equal; petals 4–6, free; disc present or absent; stamens 10–100; filaments shortly connate at base and attached to a convex receptacle; anthers dorsifixed, bilobate, with thecae globose and longitudinally dehiscent; ± equal; petals 4–6, free; disc absent. Female flowers with ovary 3-or 4-locular; ovules uniloculate; styles 3, free or shortly connate at base, bifid; stigma obscure. Fruit capsular, trilobate, surface smooth, dehiscing septicidally into 3 bivalved cocci. Seeds ellipsoid to globose; testa crustaceous; albumen fleshy; caruncles entire, non-arilloid; cotyledons broad, flat.