Minquartia Aubl.

Trees with milky juice in bark and leaves; trunk with deep grooves of limited length; young parts covered with a rusty tomentum. Leaves persistent, with schizogenous secretory cavities with resinous contents and lactifers, often with spicular cells. Inflorescences axillary, pedunculate spikes, rather short, generally simple, rarely with few and short branches, many flowered. Flowers hypogynous, small, subsessile, 2-5-fascicled along rachis, each flower subtended by a minute ovate caducous bract. Calyx cupuliform, 5(-6)-denticulate, small, persistent, not accrescent; petals (4-)5-6(-7), fleshy, connate in the lower half, lobes ovate oblong; stamens generally 10, sometimes 15 (5 episepalous and 10 epipetalous), filaments filiform, adnate to the basal parts of the petals, anthers subquadrate-suborbicular; ovary superior, hairy, (3-)4(-5)-locular below, 1-locular above, style very short, stigma shortly 3-5-lobed. Drupe with thin-fleshy exocarp, endocarp crustaceous, tuberculate outside, embryo minute in top of the copious endosperm, the latter containing amylum, but no fatty substances.