Uvariodendron (Engl. & Diels) R.E.Fr.

Shrubs or trees with an indumentum of simple hairs. Flowers hermaphrodite, solitary or fascicled, axillary on leafy shoots and/or also on the old wood, sessile or stalked; bracteoles 2–6, often forming an involucre in the case of sessile flowers. Sepals 3, valvate, free or united at the base, in most species not enclosing the petals in bud. Petals 6, in 2 whorls of 3, the outer valvate, and at length spreading, the inner valvate or somewhat imbricate above, open below, often remaining connivent at apex long after flowers have opened, free, mostly very thick and fleshy, often brittle, subequal. Stamens very numerous, linear; anther-cells lateral or extrorse; connective-prolongations capitate. Carpels numerous, cylindric, with numerous mostly biseriate ovules or in one species practically in 1 row; style very short or more developed, consisting of a plicate or involute lamina, the apical margin being the stigmatic surface. Monocarps indehiscent, ovoid, ellipsoid or broadly to narrowly cylindric, straight, subsessile or shortly stipitate, many-seeded, often constricted between the seeds. Seeds ± horizontal, ellipsoid.