Pycnanthus Warb.

Evergreen trees or lianes, usually considered dioecious (but see note under species). Leaves mostly cordate at base and glaucous beneath, mostly with numerous lateral nerves and subparallel tertiary venation. Panicles divaricate, with clustered or ± scattered heads of sessile claviform or obovoid flowers; bracteoles absent. Male with perianth 3–4-fid; stamens with filaments fused into a slender column; anthers 2–6, adnate to the apex of the column. Female with perianth as in male; stigma sessile, indistinct. Fruit oblong, ellipsoid or ± globular, with thick fleshy pericarp, dehiscent. Seed with ± thin testa, laciniate aril and fatty ruminate endosperm; cotyledons free almost to the base, suberect.