Scorodophloeus

Unarmed evergreen trees. Leaves once-pinnate; leaflets alternate, or some of them subopposite to opposite, 3-20, without gland dots. Inflorescence racemose. Flowers bisexual, spirally arranged along inflorescence-axis; pedicels not jointed; bracteoles very small, not enclosing flower buds. Sepals 4, imbricate, glabrous inside or with a few short hairs near central part and at apex. Petals 5, subequal. Stamens 10; filaments free, glabrous; anthers dehiscing by longitudinal slits. Ovary stipitate, pubescent near margins; stipe of ovary adnate along one side to wall of subcylindric-turbinate hypanthium; ovules 2; style elongate; stigma very small, capitate. Pods flattened, woody, dehiscing elastically into 2 valves which are smooth or nearly so outside. Seeds large, compressed, with thin wrinkled (when dry, ?fleshy when fresh) wall, exareolate.