Chasmanthera

Lianes with verrucose bark. Leaves simple, with long petioles, suborbicular, cordate at base, densely hairy; nerves palmate. Male inflorescences of false racemes of 3-5-flowered cymules; bracts filiform, persistent. Male flowers with 6-9 sepals, 3 outer bract-like and hairy, 3-6 inner larger, membranous to papyraceous, concave, pubescent outside; petals 6, fleshy, ribbed inside; stamens 6, erect, with long connate filaments; anther thecae with longitudinal dehiscence. Female inflorescences of pendulous racemes. Female flowers with sepals and petals similar to those of male, sometimes larger; staminodes 6, small, elongate; carpels 3, subovoid, narrowed into a short style; stigma membranous, recurved, longitudinally cleft. Drupelets 3, ellipsoid and unequal-sided, apiculate; exocarp coriaceous; endocarp with a dorsal, median, slightly tuberculate ridge, 3 apical teeth, and 2 ventral narrow marginal wings. Seeds with ruminate endosperm.