Pappea Eckl. & Zeyh.

Evergreen monoecious trees or shrubs. Leaves simple, petiolate, in clusters at the tips of branches. Inflorescence a lax or dense thyrse of yellow flowers. Calyx opening precociously to reveal the anthers, in male flowers cup-like, barely 5-lobed, in female flowers lobed to halfway. Petals minute (?sometimes absent). Stamens 8(–10);filaments very short in bud. Ovary 3-lobed; stigma 3-furrowed. Fruit a spherical mericarp, containing a single seed, dehiscing along a vertical suture into 2 valves; all 3 mericarps developed or if not then 1–2 abortive at base of fertile one. Seed ovoid to spherical; aril red, fleshy, enclosing the seed.