Phebalium Vent.

Shrubs or small trees ± covered when young with a lepidote indumentum. Branches terete, often glandular-verrucose. Leaves alternate, simple, sessile or shortly petiolate, glandular-punctate, often glandular-verrucose. Flowers terminal to branches, solitary or in umbels. Bracteoles at base of pedicel and mostly insignificant. Calyx hemispherical to cup-shaped, 5 (–8)-lobed or-toothed or occasionally entire, lepidote abaxially. Petals 5 (–8), free, elliptic to obovate or spathulate, white, yellow, or pink to mauve, lepidote abaxially. Stamens 10 (–16); filaments slender, terete; anthers basifixed, glandular-apiculate. Carpels usually 5 (–8 in  P. nottii), free or shortly fused at base, lepidote; apically united; style terete at base with branches arising from adaxial medial margin of carpels; stigma small with short, spreading lobes; ovules 2 per carpel. Seed oblong-reniform; axial endocarp thin, caducous; aril linear; sclerotesta longitudinally rugulose; hilum linear; raphe small, shrunken.