Eriocoelum

Small slender trees, spuriously polygamous, often monoecious; bark smooth, grey; branchlets fulvous-tomentose. Leaves paripinnate, shortly petiolate or subsessile; leaflets 3- or 4-jugate, oblong-elliptic, lowest pair often resembling stipules. Inflorescence a +/- terminal or axillary, paniculate or racemoid thyrse. Flowers regular, whitish, sweetly scented. Sepals 5, almost free. Petals 5, each with a short broad pilose or pubescent scale. Disc patelliform or collar-like with a free scarious margin. Stamens 8; staminodes shorter in female flowers. Ovary 3 locular, densely hairy, locules 1-ovulate; pistillode subglobose in male flowers. Fruit capsular, 3-gonous, 3-locular, loculicidally dehiscent; valves lanuginous at base within. Seeds 1 per locule, ellipsoid, with an arillode at base.