Schinziophyton

Pachycaul trees; dioecious. Leaves alternate, digitately compound, with 5-7 petiolulate leaflets, sparsely stellately hairy above, densely so below; stipules small, fugacious. Inflorescence a panicled cyme. Male flowers: sepals 4 or 5, densely stellate-pubescent; petals 5, connate into a wide, +/- truncate tube; stamens 13-21, free; filaments often hairy at base; disc of 5 +/- free, quadrate bodies attached to base of petals; pistil 0. Female flowers: sepals and petals similar to those of male; staminodes 0; disc crenulate; ovary 1- or 2-locular, with a single ovule in each locule, densely stellate-hairy; style 2-lobed or -partite or divided for half its length into 2 lobes. Fruit drupaceous, +/- size of large walnut, densely fulvous-tomentose, with thick, woody, pitted endocarp divided by membrane into 2 portions except at base and apex. Seeds compressed-ellipsoid, ecarunculate, irregularly ridged on outer face; albumen copious, fleshy, oily; cotyledons flat, broad, palminerved.