Sarcopetalum F.Muell.

Woody climbers, without prickles. Leaves subpeltate or peltate, usually ± cordate, palmately veined. Inflorescences axillary or arising from old, leafless stems, subracemose, without accrescent bracts. Male flowers: sepals usually 3–6, sometimes 2, minute, in whorls of 3, imbricate; petals 3–5, thick, fleshy, larger than sepals; stamens with the filaments connate in a column; anthers 3 or 4, free, radiating from top of column. Female flowers: sepals and petals as in male; staminodes 3–5, free; carpels 3–6; stigma recurved, divided into 2 or 3 subulate points. Drupe without stipe or carpophore; style-scar near base; endocarp ± semicircular in outline, bony, dorsally ridged or spinulose, laterally concave. Seed semi-annular; embryo subterete, embedded in endosperm; cotyledons elongate, flattened.