Monotes

Shrubs to medium-sized trees without buttresses. Leaves mostly rounded or retuse at apex, only rarely acuminate with +/-rounded extrafloral nectary at base of midrib above, and sometimes additional ones in lower nerve axils; midrib and lateral nerves +/-impressed above, prominent beneath, venation almost always very densely reticulate beneath; indumentum very varied: hairs simple, fasciculate or stellate, short or rather long, straight, curved or coiled, with small, spherical glands sparse to dense on both surfaces, making blade viscid. Flowers in axillary, small or compound panicles. Sepals and petals densely silky-pilose or velvety outside, pilose at base inside. Receptacle slightly produced into a very short thick androgynophore. Stamens many; anthers short, connectives often produced into short, triangular or ovate appendages at apex. Ovary ovoid, hairy, completely 3-5-locular, with 2 ovules in each locule. Fruit subglobose, woody, surrounded by 5 subequal, minutely hairy wings derived from accrescent sepals.