Maesobotrya Benth.

Dioecious trees or shrubs with a simple indumentum. Leaves alternate, often long-petiolate, the petioles with a proximal and distal pulvinus, stipulate, simple, entire or toothed, membranaceous or chartaceous, penninerved. Inflorescences axillary or cauliflorous, solitary or fasciculate, subspicate or racemose; bracts usually 1-flowered. Male flowers: pedicels commonly short; calyx (4–)5-lobed, imbricate; petals 0; stamens 5 (rarely 4 or 6), opposite the calyx-lobes, filaments free, anthers erect, dorsifixed, introrse, thecae parallel, longitudinally dehiscent; disc-glands 5, alternating with the filaments, fleshy, contiguous; pistillode ± cylindric, elobate. Female flowers: pedicels and calyx as in the ♂ flowers; petals 0; disc hypogynous, cupular, usually entire; ovary (1–)2(–4)-locular, with 2 ovules per locule; styles very short; stigmas bifid, slightly recurved. Fruit subglobose or ellipsoid, subdrupaceous, tardily loculicidally dehiscent; pericarp membranaceous, chartaceous or thinly coriaceous; endocarp 1-locular by suppression. Seeds solitary by abortion, ellipsoid, ecarunculate; testa thin; albumen scanty; cotyledons broad, flat, green.