Cogniauxia

Dioecious herbaceous climbers; branches often puberulous; tendrils 2-furcate. Leaves : petiole not glandular; blade broadly ovate-cordate, with a wide sinus, acutely acuminate, entire or slightly lobulate-toothed, thinly coriaceous, very conspicuously and closely reticulate beneath with prominent looped nerves. Male flowers fairly large, in several- to many-flowered racemes, on long axillary peduncles; bracts linear; receptacle somewhat inflated basally and narrowed towards apex; sepals 5, short, triangular with subulate points, puberulous; petals 5, free, asymmetrically obovate, mucronate, entire, nervose, finely puberulous; stamens 3(5), two of them 2-thecous, one 1-thecous, thecae conduplicate, arising at bottom of receptacle; pistillode absent. Female flowers solitary; perianth similar to that of male flowers; ovary narrowly oblong, with 3 placentas; ovules many, horizontal. Fruit ovoid, fleshy, smooth. Seeds many, flattened, smooth, slightly oblique.