Tannodia

Dioecious or polygamo-dioecious (with an occasional male flower on a female inflorescence) trees or shrubs; indumentum simple. Leaves alternate, petiolate, stipulate, simple, entire or subentire, palminerved. Inflorescence s terminal, interruptedly racemose; bracts 1-several-flowered. Male flowers : pedicels jointed; calyx closed in bud, later splitting into 2-5 valvate lobes; petals 4 or 5, free, imbricate; disc glands 4 or 5, free, alternating with petals; stamens 6-14, connate at base into a short column, 2-seriate with outer series short and opposite petals and inner longer and opposite sepals, anthers dorsifixed, outer ones introrse, inner ones extrorse, longitudinally dehiscent, connective broad; pistillode absent. Female flowers : pedicels jointed; sepals 4 or 5, +/- free, +/- equal, imbricate; petals 4 or 5, larger than sepals, free, imbricate; disc shallowly cupular; ovary 3-locular, with 1 ovule per locule; styles 3, connate at base, bifid. Fruit s trilobate-subglobose, dehiscing septicidally into 3 bivalved cocci; endocarp thinly woody. Seed s ecarunculate; testa crustaceous; endosperm fleshy; cotyledons broad, flat.