Gevuina Molina

Trees or shrubs. Leaves spiral, simple or imparipinnate (sometimes with transitions on the same specimen), leaflets dentate. Flowers in axillary bracteate racemes or panicles, bisexual, sessile in pairs on a stalk (2 fused pedicels); receptacle (torus) oblique, with a broad unilateral, semi-annular, sometimes nearly 2-lobed disk on the lower side. Perianth tubular, manifestly recurved at the globular limb, segments revolute, free to the base. Stamens sessile or nearly so, connective not or very slightly produced beyond the anther. Ovary subsessile, continuous with a very short stipe as thick as is the ovary; style recurved, clavate, with the stigma in the centre of a large lateral swelling. Ovules 2, orthotropous, pendulous from the top of the cell. Fruit indehiscent, pericarp hard, leathery or corky. Seed mostly solitary, subglobose; testa nearly crustaceous.