Hedycarya J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.

Shrubs or small to medium trees, dioecious. Leaves entire or regularly and coarsely dentate, chartaceous to slightly coriaceous. Inflorescences terminal or axillary panicles, with 3–20 flowers, or sometimes single-flowered. Male flowers depressed-cupuliform; tepals usually 8, triangular; stamens generally numerous, on floor and lower walls of receptacle; anthers dehiscing outwardly; connective sometimes prolonged and expanded into an appendage; filaments very short to absent. Female flowers depressed-cupuliform; tepals 6–12, distinct or not; carpels usually numerous; ovary glabrous or pubescent; stigma short and thick; staminodes present or absent. Fruiting receptacle cupuliform to convex, scarcely enlarged. Fruit formed of a loose to tight cluster of small or large drupes.