Multidentia

Shrubs or small trees to 12 m tall, or sometimes pyrophytic subshrubs, mostly glabrous, unarmed; stems often lenticellate. Leaves mostly restricted to new growth, paired or rarely ternate, petiolate; blades chartaceous to coriaceous, typically glaucous beneath, with a conspicuous network of finely, or less often, coarsely reticulate tertiary nerves; domatia present as tufts of hair, or absent; stipules sheathing at base, pubescent within, provided with a linear somewhat keeled lobe. Flowers (4)5(6)-merous, usually medium-sized, borne in pedunculate cymes, usually at nodes from which leaves have fallen, except in pyrophytic species; bracteoles linear to lanceolate, small. Calyx chartaceous or coriaceous; limb cupular, truncate, repand, dentate, or cupular below and lobed above. Corolla normal or coriaceous and drying wrinkled; tube cylindric, +/- equal to lobes or occasionally much longer, glabrous outside with a ring of deflexed hairs inside and usually rather sparsely pubescent at throat; lobes reflexed, rounded or obtuse, thickened towards apex. Stamens set at throat; anthers partly or fully exserted, oblong-ovate or oblong with dark-coloured connective tissue on dorsal face except for margin, often apiculate. Ovary 2-locular; style slightly longer, or less often up to twice as long as corolla tube, slender; pollen presenter +/- as broad as long or less, often elongate, ribbed, hollow to mid-point, apex cleft to +/- mid-point when mature; disc glabrous. Fruit a 2-seeded drupe, large, subglobose, laterally compressed, often somewhat didymous, often lenticellate, crowned by a persistent calyx limb. Pyrenes thickly woody, broadly ellipsoid, sometimes curved, truncate at point of attachment, with a line of dehiscence extending from point of attachment to apex, then arching on either side back towards point of attachment but stopping short of it, very strongly rugulose, (except in Multidentia pobeguinii); seeds with endosperm entire; testa finely reticulate; embryo slightly curved; radicle erect; cotyledons +/- ? as long as embryo, set perpendicular to ventral face of seed.