Suregada

Trees or shrubs; dioecious, rarely monoecious. Leaves alternate, sessile or subsessile, entire or crenate, gland-dotted, glabrous; stipules connate, caducous. Flowers in leaf-opposed, sessile or subsessile, cymose glomerules. Petals 0. Male flowers: sepals (4)5(-7), imbricate, often unequal, 3 outer ones concave and with blunt horn on back; disc shallowly basin-shaped, hairy; stamens 6-25(-60); filaments free; pistil 0. Female flowers: sepals similar to those of male; disc shallowly basin-shaped, sometimes bearing rudimentary staminodes, hairy; ovary (2)3(4)-locular, with 1 ovule in each locule, glabrous; styles (2)3(4), shortly bifid or lacerate. Fruit somewhat woody, globose, columella persistent, or 3-didymous, capsular or drupaceous, (2)3(4)-locular, or by abortion 1-locular. Seeds ovoid, with thin pulpy sarcostesta and crustaceous, smooth or foveolate-reticulate endotesta, ecarunculate; albumen fleshy; cotyledons broad, flat.