Desplatsia

Small trees or shrubs. Leaves ovate-oblong to obovate-oblong, cordate to subcordate and asymmetric at base, long-acuminate, obscurely dentate; domatia often present; stipules palmatifid, +/- persistent. Inflorescences many-flowered, axillary or terminal umbellate cymes; involucral bracts 3- or 4-fid, not enveloping buds. Flowers bisexual. Sepals 5, oblong, hooded. Petals 5, shorter than sepals, with a glandular area at base inside. Stamens many, fused at base into a glabrous or pubescent tube ciliate at top; anthers subglobose, dorsifixed, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 5-10-locular, tomentose; style cylindric, glabrous; stigma +/- fringed; ovules many, in 2 rows in each locule, anatropous. Fruit drupaceous, indehiscent, externally coriaceous, inside fibrous. Seeds many, oblong, narrowly winged, embedded in fibrous tissue.