Levieria Becc.

Trees or shrubs, rarely lianes (not in Australia), dioecious. Leaves entire or dentate, chartaceous to somewhat membranous. Inflorescences axillary or terminal cymes, with 1–15 flowers. Male flowers ± globose; tepals usually 8 in 2 whorls, ± rounded; stamens numerous (c. 20–40) on floor of receptacle; stamen connective prolonged and expanded into an appendage; filaments very short. Female flowers ± globose; tepals usually 4, somewhat irregular in shape, around a small ostiole; carpels 15–40 or more, the ovary pubescent; stigma short, conical; staminodes absent. Fruiting receptacle folding back in fruit. Fruit a cluster of sessile drupes on a flattened receptacle.

Mainly in lower montane rain-forest, between 1200 and 3000 m but descending to sea-level. Frequent in the shrub layer and lower canopy of rain-forest; persisting in regrowth areas, more rarely on shrubby hill-sides.