Cnesmocarpon Adema

Small or medium-sized trees, twigs, petioles and rachises lenticellate. Indumentum of solitary simple hairs. Twigs terete, striate to grooved. Leaves spirally arranged, paripin-nate, 1-8-jugate, without pseudo-stipules, neither petiole nor rachis winged. Leaflets alternate to opposite, asymmetric, papillate below; petiolules pulvinate; margin entire or remotely dentate; midrib not or slightly prominent above; domatia absent or pocket-like. Inflorescences axillary or rarely ramiflorous, bracts and bracteoles subulate to triangular orovate, both sides appressed-hairy. Flowers unisexual, regular. Sepals 5, free, imbricate, not petaloid, slightly unequal, both sides appressed-hairy. Petals 5, spathulate, shorter to longer than the sepals, clawed, with 2 scales or auricles (in C. dentata sometimes absent). Disc complete or interrupted, glabrous. Stamens 8; filaments patently hairy; anthers glabrous or sparsely hairy. Ovary 3-celled, hairy; style apical with 3 stigmatic lines. Fruits 3-eelled, basally 3-winged, loculicidal, outside velutinous and densely covered with irritating hairs, inside tomentose to appressed-hairy. Seeds obovoid, testa shiny black, sarcotes-la carunculoid; cotyledons unequal, parallel or obliquely superposed.