Palmeria F.Muell.

Woody climbers or scandent shrubs, climbing by recurved branches, dioecious. Leaves mostly entire or sometimes shallowly crenate, chartaceous to thinly coriaceous. Inflorescences axillary, racemes or panicles, with (5–) 7–15 (–40) flowers, pubescent with stellate hairs. Male flowers cupuliform to flattened-hemispherical; tepals 4–7, inflexed, ± triangular or somewhat irregular in shape; stamens numerous, scattered over inner surface of receptacle; anthers dehiscing by 2 longitudinal slits; connective not prolonged into an appendage; filaments very short or ± absent. Female flowers globose or urceolate; tepals c. 5, around a small ostiole, minute; carpels 5–10 (–20), the ovary glabrous; stigma linear, protruding through ostiole; staminodes absent. Fruiting receptacle enlarging, splitting irregularly. Fruit of sessile drupes scattered on split receptacle.