Endodesmia

Tall trees; branches +/-cylindric, smooth and glabrous. Leaves opposite, petiolate, elliptic to obovate, obtuse to cuneate at base, +/-long-acuminate at apex, with numerous parallel lateral veins and translucid glandular canals indistinct in mature leaves. Inflorescences terminal or axillary cymes. Flowers bisexual. Sepals 5, imbricate, caducous. Petals 5, contorted, caducous. Disc circular, surrounding base of ovary. Stamens fused into a tube; anthers many, stipitate and arising on inside of staminal tube along its entire height. Ovary 1-locular and 1-ovate; style narrowly cylindric, truncate. Fruit drupaceous, on a thick, fleshy pedicel. Seed 1, subglobose; cotyledons fleshy.