Batocarpus H.Karst.

Dioecious trees. Leaves alternate, distichous; stipules lateral. Staminate inflo-rescences in discoid involucrate heads, the bracts and bracteoles basifixed, not peltate. Pistillate inflorescences in globose heads without involucral bracts nor obvious bracteoles. Staminate flowers with a deeply 4-lobed perianth and 4 stamens with broadly oval longitudinally dehiscent anthers apically attached to the fila-ments. Pistillate flowers with a fleshy tubular accrescent perianth, the ovary superior and with a central deeply 2-lobed papillate stigma. Fruit a globose rather fleshy syncarp.