Triclisia Benth.

Robust, twining lianes. Leaves simple, petiolate; blade entire, rarely serrate. Male inflorescences of corymb-like cymules or of small, many-flowered panicles. Male flowers with 9–18 sepals, all densely pubescent outside, the outer ones bract-like, the inner ones suborbicular and somewhat united; petals 6, very small or absent, glabrous and somewhat fleshy; stamens 3–6, free; anther-thecae with obliquely longitudinal dehiscence; a tuft of rusty hairs instead of the gynoecium. Female inflorescences similar to the ♂. Female flowers with sepals similar to those of the ♂; petals 3–6 or absent; staminodes reduced; carpels 6–40, pubescent, narrowed into a cylindrical style. Drupes obovoid, flattened, stipitate; exocarp usually velvety, sparsely puberulous; endocarp rugose and fibrous-hairy. Seeds without endosperm.