Cuervea

Tall-growing, unarmed lianes; latex present or absent. Leaves opposite, rarely subopposite, petiolate, large, ovate-elliptic, entire, coriaceous; stipules reduced. Inflorescences in axillary dichotomous cymes, often arranged in terminal panicles; buds globose. Flowers large, opening wide, pedicellate. Sepals 5, suborbicular, denticulate. Petals 5, widely spaced, obovate-circular, concave. Disc with 5 rounded lobes. Stamens 3, arising on inner margin of disc; filaments flattened, very short, +/-as long as wide; anthers transversely dehiscent. Ovary 3-locular, with (4-)6(-8) ovules per locule; stigma subsessile, 3-lobed. Fruit +/-150 mm in diameter, of 3 obovate-circular, flattened mericarps on a conical receptacle, each mericarp dehiscing by a median suture into 2 caducous valves . Seeds 4-6 per mericarp, weighing up to 15 g, not winged but with a prominent vein (raphe).