Triumfetta Plum. ex L.

Shrubs or trees, the pubescence usually of stellate hairs. Leaves alternate, petiolate, stipulate, the stipules usually large and persistent, rarely fugacious, the blade entire or 3-to 5-lobed or rarely 5-to 7-partite, the margins irregularly serrate, the basal serrations usually glandular, 3-to 7-palminerved. Inflorescences hermaphrodite or gynodioecious, usually axillary, sometimes terminal, consisting generally of numerous aggregate dichasia, the bracts foliaceous. Flowers either hermaphrodite or pistil late, actinom orphous, pedicel late, generally 5-merous, rarely 4-or 6-merous; sepals valvate, with apical appendages, usually pubescent without, glabrous within; petals sometimes absent, free, imbricate, shorter than the sepals, usually ciliate at the base, glandless; gonophore short, sometimes obsolete, bearing 5 manifest glands opposite the petals, these sometimes united into a full ring or sometimes absent, usually crowned by a ciliate membranous urceolus surrounding the stamens; stamens 5-60 in the hermaphrodite flowers, staminodial or absent in the pistillate ones, the filaments free; anthers 2-thecate, introse, more or less medifixus, longitudinally dehiscent; ovary superior, sessile on the gonophore, infrequently borne on a very short gynophore, ellipsoid to orbicular, covered with many, short, straight to uncinate, hyaline spinules, 2-to 5-loculate, the cells 2-ovulate; style filiform; stigma entire or shortly 2-to 5-parted. Fruit capsular, mostly sessile on the slightly accrescent gonophore, covered with many tubercles, bristles or spines elongating from the pericarp at the base of the spinules, the appendages glabrous or pilosulose and topped by the hyaline, straight to un-cinate spinules, indehiscent or loculicidally dehiscent, 2-to 5-loculate, the cells 2-seeded, or falsely 6-to 10-celled, the cells 1-seeded, exceptionally 1-celled and 1-seeded by abortion; seeds pendulous, compressed-ovoid to pyriform, albuminous; embryo straight; cotyledons flat, foliaceous.