Trevesia Vis.

Shrubs or trees, unarmed or prickly, tomentose at least on young parts; buds enclosed in cataphylls. Leaves large, palmately lobed or digitately compound, stipules forming a bicuspid ligule within the terete petiole. Flowers in umbellules which are arranged racemosely along a rachis or in panicles; pedicels not articulated below the ovary. Calyx a small rim. Petals 7-12, valvate, often falling at anthesis as a calyptra. Stamens as many as the petals; anthers large ovoid, dorsi-fixed, introrse, filament strap-like. Ovary inferior, broadly obconic or subglobose, 7-12-celled; disk rising gradually to a central boss formed by the united styles. Fruit globose or ovoid, crowned by the disk and prominent stylar column; pyrenes coriaceous, compressed, endosperm smooth.

Primary rain-forest and second growth, especially in humid, shady localities.