Lasianthera

Glabrous shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate, entire, penninerved. Inflorescences umbels of small heads opposite leaves. Flowers bisexual. Calyx small, shortly 5-toothed. Petals 5, valvate, cohering in a tube but easily separated to base. Stamens alternating with petals, free or adnate at base to petals, with a tuft of long hairs on inside near base of anthers; anthers with a tuft of hairs on back. Disc unilateral, pressed against one side of ovary. Ovary 1-locular, +/- oval in outline but beaked and dorsiventrally flattened and thus narrowly oval in cross section; style short, glabrous; stigma small. Fruit a dorsiventrally flattened drupe with remains of disc attached to base. Seed: embryo small, apical on endosperm.