Carronia F.Muell.

Lianas. Branchlets often bearing prominent discoid petiole-scars. Leaves with lamina ± elliptic, penninerved. Inflorescences axillary, terminal or ramiflorous, pseudo-spicate or thyrsoid (composed of pseudo-spikes), the flowers in congested clusters. Male flowers: sepals 9-30 in whorls of 3, the inner ones larger, subcoriaceous, externally densely pilose, internally glabrous, the innermost whorl(s) valvate; petals 6, minute, ± unguiculate; stamens 6, free, anthers introrse with vertical or oblique slits. Female flowers: sepals and petals as in male; staminodes 0; carpels 6, densely pilose; styles erect, or recurved, subulate, glabrous. Drupes narrowed at base into a stipe or subsessile on gynophore, subobovoid or elongate-obovoid with style-scar near the base; endocarp with or without a dorsal ridge, surface knobbly, slightly rugose or almost smooth, condyle forming a longitudinal septum; seed horseshoe-shaped, endosperm absent, cotyledons thick, semi-cylindrical.