Jateorhiza

Somewhat woody lianes with dense indumentum and tuberous rootstock. Leaves palmately 3-5(7)-lobed, strigose on both surfaces; petiole long. Male inflorescences of elongate axillary panicles, lateral axes bearing 3-7-flowered clusters. Male flowers with 6 sepals, 3 outer ones elongate to elliptic, 3 inner ones obovate; petals 6, somewhat concave, mostly abruptly bent inwards at apex and with margins incurved and enveloping androecium; stamens 6, free or connate; anthers introrse, globular; thecae with transverse dehiscence. Female inflorescences of axillary racemes. Female flowers with sepals and petals +/- similar to those of male; staminodes 6, tongue-shaped. Carpels 3, subovoid; styles small, recurved; stigma broad, produced into 2- or 3-cleft lamellae. Drupelets ovoid or subovoid; exocarp strigose-hispid or setulose; endocarp ovoid, flattened, ventral side +/- smooth, dorsal side clothed with many fibrillose hairs. Seeds with fleshy, ruminate endosperm.