Brenania

Tall trees, glabrous, young parts glutinous; branchlets stout. Leaves petiolate, obovate-oblanceolate, subcordate to cuneate at base, apex rounded and very bluntly and shortly acuminate; stipules united, truncate, ciliate on margin, persistent. Inflorescences cymose, +/- 50 mm long, borne laterally opposite a single leaf at alternate nodes; axis becoming woody in fruit. Flowers glabrous except inside of corolla tube. Calyx shortly tubular, truncate or obscurely 5-toothed. Corolla: tube cylindrical, lobes 5, suborbicular, contorted. Stamens 5; anthers +/- included, linear, sessile. Disc cup-shaped, glabrous. Ovary 1-locular, with 2 parietal placentas and many ovules; style with slightly thickened, 2-lobed stigma. Fruit subglobose, glabrous, with thick fleshy mesocarp, and a thick, woody endocarp. Seeds many, lenticular, irregularly ovate in outline.