Trattinnickia Willd.

entire to sinuous, the laterals inequilateral basally. Inflorescences axillary to sub-terminal or terminal panicles or thryses; plants dioecious or polygamous to mo-noecious. Flowers small, 3-merous, calyx synsepalous, irregularly 3-lobed, imbri-cate, the lobes persistent in fruit; corolla sympetalous, fleshy, more or less tubular, 3-lobed, induplicate-valvate, inflexed-apiculate; stamens 6, the filaments short and dilated, free, inserted on the base of the disc in staminate flowers and on the disc margin in carpellate flowers; disc annular, 6-lobed; gynoecium 3-carpelled, the ovary 2-3-lobed and-loculed, fleshy, surrounded basally by the disc, abortive in staminate flowers, the ovules apical, pendulous, 2 per locule. Fruits drupa-ceous, the exocarp membranaceous, the mesocarp thick and resinous; pyrenes (1-)2, 1-seeded, corregated, thick, and woody, nearly connate, separated only by a thin layer of mesocarp; endosperm absent, the cotyledons contortuplicate.