Maesopsis

Tall trees; bark silvery grey with vertical, twisted furrowing. Leaves opposite to somewhat alternate, petiolate, ovate-elliptic to oblong-ovate, penninerved with many subparallel tertiary veins, markedly glandular-serrulate; stipules subulate, caducous. Inflorescences divaricately branched axillary cymes. Flowers bisexual. Sepals 5, deltoid with minutely pubescent margins. Petals 5, not clawed, extremely concavo-convex and thus almost totally obscuring anther, even when dehiscing. Stamens 5, with +/- sessile anthers. Disc thin, lining cup at its rim, minutely 10-lobed. Ovary apparently 1-locular, with a single basal, ascending, anatropous ovule; style simple, cylindric, projecting only slightly above petals; stigma peltate with 10 small marginal lobes. Fruit a +/- obovoid drupe with a 1-seeded stone with style and stigma persistent; outer portion of mesocarp fleshy.