Steganthera Perkins

Trees or shrubs, monoecious (or perhaps dioecious outside Australia). Leaves entire or some-what irregularly toothed, chartaceous to coriaceous. Inflorescences axillary, cymes or panicles, sometimes fasciculate, usually 3-or more flowered, and up to 15 (female) or 60 (male). Male flowers globose to depressed globose or distinctly turbinate; tepals 4, surrounding an ostiole; stamens 4, in pairs, rarely 2, 3 or 5, on floor and side walls of receptacle; anthers ellipsoid, opening by a single horizontal slit; connective not prolonged into an appendage; filaments distinct, short to moderately long, thick and ± flattened, occasionally but variably fused. Female flowers globose to depressed-globose or distinctly turbinate, calyptrate at maturity; tepals 4, not forming a hyperstigma; carpels numerous, the ovary pubescent; stigma conical to elongate and subulate, glabrous or pubescent; staminodes absent. Upper part of fruiting receptacle falling off forming a circular scar. Fruit a cluster of often stipitate drupes.