Shirakiopsis

Monoecious trees or shrubs with multicellular, unbranched, usually coloured hairs; latex white. Leaves alternate; petioles short, eglandular; blades simple, shallowly serrate, penninerved, with a row of marginal glands below, lower surface paler than upper; stipules small, undivided, eglandular. Inflorescences terminal, solitary, spicate or racemiform; bracts with a pair of spheroidal glands, (0)1-3 basal ones with 1 female flower, many apical ones with (3)5-7 male flowers. Male flowers pedicellate; calyx lobes 2 or 3, unequal; stamens 2 or 3, free. Female flowers pedicellate; calyx lobes 2 or 3, subequal, connate only at base, eglandular; petals and disc 0; ovary2(3, 4)-lobed; styles 2(3, 4), connate at base, subpersistent. Fruit 2(3, 4)-lobed, rarely by abortion 1-coccous, laterally compressed, smooth, shiny, +/- drupaceous, indehiscent or subindehiscent; mesocarp fleshy; endocarp thinly crustaceous. Seeds subglobose, smooth, pale, greyish brown, ecarunculate.