Legnephora Miers

Woody climbers, without prickles. Leaves ± broadly ovate, palmately veined, with veins extending to leaf margin. Inflorescences pedunculate cymes, 1 or few supra-axillary or racemosely arranged, without accrescent bracts. Male flowers: sepals 6, in whorls of 3, imbricate, outer 3 usually narrower than inner 3; petals 6 with sides folded inwards around the opposite stamen, glabrous; stamens 6, free; anthers dehiscing transversely, ± introrse, the cells separated abaxially by the thickened connective. Female flowers: sepals 6; petals absent; staminodes 6, claviform; carpels 3; stigma recurved, flattened. Drupe curved, without stipe or carpophore; style-scar near base; endocarp bony, rotund in outline with entire dorsal wing and prominent lateral curved crests. Seed horseshoe-shaped; embryo narrow, embedded in endosperm; cotyledons slightly shorter than radicle.