Sorindeia Thouars

Dioecious shrubs, sometimes sarmentose, or trees. Leaves alternate, imparipinnate or rarely unifoliolate; leaflets alternate to opposite, petiolulate; tertiary nerves sometimes collected into an oblique nerve, directed towards the angle between the midrib and the lateral nerves. Flowers 5-merous, in axillary or terminal branched panicles or borne on old wood below the leaves. Male flowers: calyx somewhat cupuliform, shallowly 5-lobed; petals valvate, or sometimes imbricate, much longer than the calyx; stamens normally 10–21; filaments subulate, inserted below and on the disk; anthers dorsifixed, introrse; disk crenulate, glabrous; pistillode absent. Female flowers: perianth similar to ♂; reduced stamens or staminodes usually 5, small; ovary free, ovoid, unilocular, the ovule pendent, apical; style 1 with a 3-lobed stigma persistent on the fruit. Drupe ellipsoid or asymmetrically ovoid; mesocarp thin, fleshy; endocarp chartaceous or woody. Seed ellipsoid.