Champereia Griff.

Shrubs or small trees; branchlets glabrous. Leaves coriaceous-fleshy. Plants polygamous with or ♀ flowers in panicles. Panicles axillary, often also on older branches or on the main trunk. Inflorescences with ♀ flowers widely branched; inflorescences more dense with stout branches, rachises sometimes finely puberulous. Flowers 5-(sometimes 4-or 6-)merous, with pedicels, solitary or fascicled along the branches of the inflorescence; bracts minute, fugacious. — Flowers: tepals reflexed; filaments filiform; ovary small, conical, half immersed in the fleshy, annular disk; stigma sessile. ♀ Flowers: tepals adjacent to the ovary; stamens rudimentary; disk lobed. Drupe shortly pedicelled, ellipsoid; pericarp thin, 0.8-1.2 mm thick, mesocarp fleshy, endocarp woody. Embryo nearly as long as the seed, radicle small, with 3 long cotyledons.

Open evergreen forest and dry monsoon forest, from lowland up to c. 1600 m, mostly below 900 m.