Cleistochlamys Oliv.

Erect or straggling deciduous shrub or small tree; indumentum of simple hairs. Flowers solitary, opening after the leaves have fallen, axillary, sessile; buds globose, supported by 4–5 biseriate persistent bracteoles. Calyx entire and completely enclosing the petals in bud, glabrous, splitting into (2)3 equal lobes. Petals 6, in 2 whorls of 3, the outer valvate, the inner imbricate and slightly smaller, spreading, free. Stamens ± 30–40 (or ?fewer), obtriangular; filaments almost obsolete; anther-cells extrorse; connective-prolongations broadly capitate. Carpels 6–12, ovoid, with a single basal ovule; style cylindric, almost as long as the carpel; stigma capitate. Monocarps indehiscent, ellipsoid-cylindrical, stipitate, 1-seeded, fleshy. Seed vertical, cylindrical, without an aril.