Cladostemon

Shrubs or small trees, glabrous. Leaves alternate, 3-foliolate; petiolules articulated at base; stipules minute, inconspicuous. Flowers in lax corymbose racemes. Sepals 4, free; receptacle not developed into a disc. Petals 4, the 2 adaxial larger, unguiculate. Stamens 5-8; adaxial ones united in a much elongated androphore; abaxial ones (staminodes) shortly united at base and arising from base of androphore. Ovary on a gynophore attached to androphore, stout in fruit, ellipsoid, 2-locular with 2 multi-ovulate parietal placentas; stigma peltate. Fruit globose, large, with long stalk; pericarp coriaceous. Seeds many, subglobose; cotyledons large, fleshy, curved.