Aporrhiza

Trees, functionally monoecious; bark grey-brown or grey-green; branchlets fulvous-tomentose or -pubescent. Leaves paripinnate; leaflets 2-4-jugate, oblong-elliptic or elliptic. Inflorescence a terminal or axillary paniculate thyrse. Flowers functionally unisexual, regular. Sepals 5, free almost to base, ovate to ovate-elliptic. Petals 5, slightly shorter than sepals, unguiculate, cream or creamy white, each with 2 hairy scales formed by inflexed margin above claw. Disc deeply lobed, glabrous. Stamens 6-8; filaments pilose. Ovary 2-locular, pilose, locules 1-ovulate; style short, 2-lobed. Fruit capsular, of 2 divergent, platter-shaped, loculicidally dehiscent cocci. Seeds 1 in each locule, with an arillode covering lower half.