Monotes A.Dc.

Shrubs to medium-sized trees without buttresses. Leaves mostly rounded or retuse at apex, only rarely acuminate, with, ± rounded extra-floral nectary at base of midrib above and sometimes additional ones in lower nerve-axils; midrib and lateral nerves ± impressed above, prominent beneath, the venation almost always very densely reticulate beneath; indumentum very varied; hairs simple, fasciculate or stellate, short or rather long, straight, curved or coiled, with small spherical glands sparse to dense on both surfaces, often making the blades viscid. Flowers in axillary small or compound panicles. Sepals and petals densely silky-pilose or velvety outside, pilose at base inside. Receptacle slightly produced into a very short broad androgynophore. Stamens numerous with short anthers, the connectives often produced into short triangular or ovate appendages at the apex. Ovary ovoid, hairy, completely 3–5-locular, with 2 ovules in each locule. Fruit subglobose, woody, surrounded by 5 subequal minutely hairy wings derived from the accrescent sepals.