Duboscia

Trees. Leaves obovate-oblong to lanceolate, rounded to +/- cordate and 3-nerved at base, acuminate, denticulate; stipules entire, +/- caducous. Inflorescences axillary cymes; bracts entire. Flowers bisexual, regular, involucrate; with a short glabrous androgynophore. Sepals 4, valvate, oblong. Petals 4, subulate, with a glandular area at base inside. Stamens many, all free and fertile, arising on a thick, fleshy villose disc; anthers subglobose, dorsifixed, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 5-10-locular; style shorter than ovary; stigma fimbriate; ovules many, in 2 rows in every locule, anatropous. Fruit drupaceous, indehiscent, fibrous inside. Seeds many, flattened, embedded in fibrous tissue.