Tragiella

Perennial herbs, usually twining, up to +/- 3 m long; with stinging hairs; monoecious. Leaves alternate, long-petiolate, finely toothed; stipulate. Flowers in lateral, pedunculate racemes, with many bracteate male flowers above and 1 or 2 female flowers at base. Petals 0. Male flowers: calyx 3-partite, valvate above, at length with lobes folded inwards and resembling a disc; stamens 3(4), alternating with sepals; filaments united into a short column; anthers at first erect and later becoming reflexed, apiculate, with longitudinal, introrse dehiscence; ovary usually 0. Female flowers: calyx 6-partite; lobes pinnately 8-10-lacinulate on each side; ovary 3-lobed, with single ovule in each locule, hispid; styles 3, united almost to apex into a slender tube, with spreading stigmas. Fruit a 3-didymous capsule, dehiscing into 3-bivalved cocci; pericarp thin, crustaceous; endocarp woody; columella trifid, not persistent. Seeds globose, ecarunculate; cotyledons broad, flat.