Tannodia Baill.

Dioecious or polygamo-dioecious shrubs or trees with a simple indumentum. Leaves alternate, petiolate, stipulate, simple, entire, palminerved. Inflorescences terminal, solitary, interruptedly racemose; bracts glanduliferous, 1-several-flowered. Male flowers: pedicels articulate; calyx closed in bud, ovoid or subglobose, later valvately 2–5-partite; petals 4–5, longer than the calyx-lobes, imbricate; disc-glands 4–5, free, alternating with the petals; stamens 7–12, connate into a short column, biseriate, the outer ones short, opposite the petals, the inner longer, opposite the sepals, anthers dorsifixed, the outer ones introrse, the inner extrorse, longitudinally dehiscent, connective broad; pistillode 0. Female flowers: pedicels articulate; calyx-lobes 4–5, equal, imbricate; petals 4–5, much larger than the calyx-lobes; disc shallowly cupular; ovary 3-locular, with 1 ovule per locule; styles connate at the base, bifid. Fruit subglobose, dehiscent. Seeds ovoid, ecarunculate, testa crustaceous, albumen fleshy; cotyledons broad, flat.