Grandidiera

Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, persistent, petiolate, oblanceolate to obovate, entire or undulate, penninerved; stipules subulate, pubescent. Flowers unisexual or bisexual; bisexual flowers with slightly larger sepals and petals and with fewer (35-50) stamens than male flowers. Inflorescences short, axillary, few-flowered, spike-like, shortly hairy racemes from upper axils; terminal flower bisexual, lower flowers male; subtending bracts several, membranous, small. Sepals 3, imbricate, small. Petals 5-7, imbricate, small. Stamens many; filaments filiform; anthers dorsifixed near base, longitudinally dehiscent. Ovary 1-locular, with 2-4 multi-ovulate parietal placentas, sessile, shortly 4-6(-8)-winged; style short; stigmas (2)3(4), horizontally divergent. Fruit globular, woody, tardily dehiscent, with 4-6(-8) short, membranous, crenate wings. Seeds many, ovoid, small.