Dahlgrenodendron

Tall evergreen trees. Leaves opposite, penninerved, net-veining conspicuous on both surfaces. Inflorescences 3-flowered cymules, arranged on young growth or on short-shoots, with small, caducous bracts. Flowers bisexual, 3-merous, greenish white. Perianth: tube deeply urceolate. Tepals subequal. Male flowers with 9 fertile stamens, the third whorl with glands; filaments much shorter than anthers; anthers 2-thecous, the first and second whorl introrse, the third whorl extrorse; pollen with a well developed, striate exine (apparently unique for the family); staminodes of whorl four conspicuous, ovate-triangular. Ovary sessile, +/- immersed in receptacle, narrowed into slender style and small stigma. Fruit completely enclosed in accrescent perianth tube; tepals persistent. Seed with delicate testa.