Hunteria

Shrubs or trees up to 40 m high; stems and leaves completely glabrous; latex present; spines and tendrils absent. Leaves opposite, oblong to elliptic, entire, +/-concolorous; petiolate; stipules absent. Inflorescences cymose, terminal, rarely also axillary, few- to many-flowered; pedicels present, up to 10 mm long. Calyx glabrous; lobes free or connate at extreme base, herbaceous, imbricate, not revolute, with colleters inside covering part of ventral surface of sepals. Corolla hypocrateriform, externally glabrous, internally hairy above and below stamens; tube not developing splits (as in Pleiocarpa) ; lobes contorted, overlapping to the left, not ciliate. Stamens included, arising at or above middle of corolla tube; filaments short, anthers dorsifixed, longitudinally dehiscent, introrse, without carina. Ovary of 2 separate, glabrous mericarps diverging at 90-180deg, with 2-30 ovules per mericarp; pistil head composed of a subglobose basal stigmatic part and a stigmoid apex. Fruit composed of 2 separate diverging subglobose to obovoid, fleshy to fibrous mericarps. Seeds somewhat angular, smooth, brown; embryo straight, spathulate, surrounded by thick, rather starchy and hard endosperm, leaving a hole around radicle base; cotyledons thin, leafy, radicle almost cylindric.