Montiniaceae Nakai

Small trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, opposite or subopposite, simple, entire, penninerved, usually petiolate, deciduous; stipules absent. Flowers dioecious in terminal or axillary inflorescences, the ? flowers in few-flowered panicles, the ? flowers solitary or rarely paired. Male flowers: calyx-tube cupular or flattened out, ± entire or shortly 3–5-lobed; petals yellow-green, 3–5, imbricate, slightly fleshy, deciduous, inserted below the margin of the fleshy disk; stamens yellowish, 3–5, similarly inserted and alternating with the petals; anther-thecae dehiscing by longitudinal slits; rudimentary ovary absent or minute. Female flowers: calyx-tube elongate, shortly produced beyond the ovary, scarcely or minutely 4–5-lobed at the apex; petals 4–5, imbricate, slightly fleshy, deciduous; disk fleshy, epigynous, 4–5-angled; staminodes 4–5, inserted below the margin of the disk and alternating with the petals; ovary inferior, (1–)2-locular; style short, thick, 2-fid or 2-lobed; stigmas 2, large; ovules (2–)3–9(–12) in each locule, axile, 1–2-seriate, erect or pendulous, anatropous. Fruit a loculicidally dehiscent capsule or indehiscent. Seeds ± globular or compressed and winged; endosperm copious or absent; embryo straight, with round compressed cotyledons