Tapura Aubl.

Trees or shrubs. Inflorescences of densely crowded glomerules adnate to petioles or midrib, sessile or subsessile. Flowers small, hermaphrodite or polygamous, weakly zygomorphic; bracts small and often scale-like; sepals 5, imbricate, connate at base, usually unequal rarely equal; petals 5, connate at base to form a long distinct tube, or free almost to base, lobes imbricate, usually with 2 much larger broad lobes which are bifid and bicucullate at apex, and 3 smaller linear-lanceolate entire lobes, rarely with 3 equal or nearly equal bicucullate lobes only; stamens 5, all fertile or more frequently 3 fertile and 2 reduced to staminodes, filaments adnate to inside of corolla tube or to base of corolla in species without a distinct tube, anthers introrse; disk semi-annular or 2-3-partite; ovary free, globose, 2-3-locular with 2 ovules in each loculus, style single, 2-3-lobed at apex or divided for much of length. Fruits dry coriaceous drupes, 1-3-locular with 1 seed in each loculus.