Chasmanthera Hochst.

Liane with verrucose bark. Leaves simple, longly petiolate, suborbicular-subangular, densely hairy; nerves palmate. Male inflorescences of false racemes of 3–5-flowered cymules; bracts filiform, persistent. Male flowers with 6–9 sepals, the 3 outer bract-like and hairy, the 3–6 inner larger, membranous to papery, concave, pubescent outside; petals 6, fleshy, ribbed inside; stamens 6, erect, with longly connate filaments; anther-thecae with longitudinal dehiscence. Female inflorescences of pendulous racemes. Female flowers with sepals and petals similar to those of the ♂, sometimes larger; staminodes 6, small, elongate; carpels 3, subovoid, narrowed into a short style; stigma membranous, recurved, longitudinally cleft. Drupes 3, ellipsoid and unequal-sided, apiculate; exocarp coriaceous; endocarp on its dorsal side with a median slightly tuberculate ridge and 3 apical teeth, on its ventral side with 2 narrow marginal wings. Seeds with ruminate endosperm.