Aptandra

Monoecious or dioecious shrubs or small trees, with many lenticels. Leaves simple, entire; base cuneate, apex mucronate; stipules absent. Inflorescences short, many-flowered axillary panicles, or flowers solitary or in pairs. Flowers bisexual, male or female. Calyx small, cupuliform, much accrescent in fruit. Petals 4,valvate, linear, apiculate, with 4 thick, alternipetalous glands. Stamens 4, epipetalous, extrorse; filaments fused into a tube around pistil; anthers fused into a ring, opening by annular pores. Ovary superior, 2-locular, slightly compressed; ovule 1 per locule; style filiform; stigma globular. Fruit a 1-seeded drupe surrounded by a much accrescent, widely funnel- to bowl-shaped, entire, coloured calyx. Seeds with fleshy, oily endosperm.