Mildbraedia Pax

Dioecious shrubs or small trees, with stellate and sometimes also with simple indumentum. Leaves alternate, long-petiolate, simple or occasionally (Gabon, Cabinda, Congo) deeply 2–3-lobed, subentire to shallowly or sharply repand-denticulate, penninerved and 3–9-nerved at the base. Stipules subulate, deciduous. Inflorescences axillary or supraaxillary, solitary, often long-pedunculate or scapose, simply racemose or with the flowers in racemes of 1-flowered (♀ inflorescences) or many-flowered (♂ inflorescences) cymes, or with terminal aggregations of cymes; bracts subulate. Male flowers: sepals 5(–6), free or shortly united at the base, imbricate; petals 5(–6), free, imbricate, equalling or exceeding the sepals; disc of 5 free fleshy glands opposite the sepals; stamens 10–25, inserted on a fleshy hairy receptacle, filaments erect in bud, the outer ones free, short, the inner ones sometimes slightly connate at the base, anthers small, introrse, dorsifixed, longitudinally dehiscent; pistillode 0. Female flowers: sepals and petals a little larger than in ♂, otherwise identical; disc hypogynous, annular or 5-lobed, hairy or glabrous; ovary 3-locular, with 1 ovule per locule; styles 3, free or slightly connate at the base, bifid or bipartite. Fruits trilobed, septicidal, the 3 cocci loculicidal; exocarp thin, crustaceous; endocarp a little thicker, woody. Seeds ovoid-subglobose; testa crustaceous, smooth, somewhat shiny, mottled.