Cylicomorpha

Monoecious trees; trunk simple or sparsely branched at apex, upper parts and branches armed with short conical prickles. Leaves clustered at apex of stem and at ends of branches, shallowly to deeply 3-5-lobed, strongly cordate at base, +/-orbicular in outline, lobes entire or with subsidiary lobes. Male flowers with calyx +/-entire; corolla tube cylindric, lobes shorter than tube; filaments connate into a ring at base. Female flowers : calyx +/-entire; petals free; androecium entirely absent; stigmas free, connate at base; ovary 5-locular, 5-angled; ovules many, borne in the angle between the septa and the ovary wall. Fruit 5-locular.