Piptostigma

Trees or small trees with simple hairs. Flowers bisexual, solitary, in few-flowered fascicles or in panicles, sometimes cauliflorous; buds conical or subglobose. Sepals 3, valvate, free. Petals 6, in 2 whorls, valvate, outer ones much shorter than inner ones and +/-equal to sepals, inner ones concave at base. Stamens many, connectives with truncate dilated apex; filaments very short to absent. Carpels 2-8, free, cylindric or +/-prismatic, with 4-20 ovules in 2 series. Fruit of monocarps free or +/-united at base, cylindric-ellipsoid, fleshy, indehiscent. Seeds +/-horizontal, ellipsoid.