Lepionurus Blume

Shrubs, erect or straggling, usually glabrous, sometimes young twigs with short hairs. Leaves glabrous, thinly coriaceous. Flowers bisexual, in axillary racemes, three flowers per bract; rachis of inflorescence slender, glabrous. Bracts broad scaly, pale green, with hyaline, shortly ciliate margin, densely imbricate, caducous before anthesis (lowermost bracts smaller, sterile and persisting). Flowers (3-) 4 (-5)-merous. Perianth united, deeply lobed. Stamens not exceeding the perianth, filaments flattened. Disk cupular, with irregularly lobed margin. Ovary ovoid-conical; stigma ± sessile, entire or shallowly 4-lobed. Drupe ellipsoid to somewhat ovoid or obovoid; pericarp thin, mesocarp juicy, endocarp crustaceous. Embryo nearly as long as the seed, radicle small, with 3-4 long, linear cotyledons.

Undergrowth in evergreen forest, from the lowland up to 1250 (-2000) m.