Dryadodaphne S.Moore

Tall trees, young branches ± tetragenous usually glabrous. Leaves dentate or almost entire. Inflorescence axillary, of dichasia or few-flowered pleiochasia, bracteoles broad enclosing the flowerbud, early caducous. Flowers bisexual, perianth and androecium on the rim of the hypanthium; tepals 8, in 2 whorls, oblong-elliptic, obtuse. Androecium tetramerous, the outer 1—2 whorls of stamens with divergent ovate-deltate, planate to shallowly cupular, obtuse staminal glands and shortly apiculate to broadly rostrate, latrorsely to ± ex-trorsely dehiscing anthers, the inner whorls of lanceolate-deltoid to almost sub-ulate staminodes. Gynoecium of several free carpels, styles terminal; ovule subbasal. Fruiting hypanthium cylindrical-ellipsoid, dehiscing into 4 (sometimes 2) equal valves. Nutlets narrowly ellipsoid to obclavate, silky hirsute on one side in deep pits, styles terminal, subulate.

Montane rain-forest, (500-)600-2800 m. In New Guinea D. crassa is associated consistently with Nothofagus forest, and D. novoguineensis with lower altitude mixed forest.