Strombosia

Large trees; young branches flexuous, green, compressed, later pale brown, cylindric. Leaves oblong or ovate-oblong, glabrous. Flowers bisexual, fasciculate on very short lateral shoots. Calyx: tube adnate to ovary; limb small, with 5 broadly ovate lobes. Petals 5, perigynous, valvate, connivent or patent-erect. Stamens 5, opposite petals; filaments adnate to petals; anthers dorsifixed. Ovary semi-inferior, 3-5-locular at base, covered by disc; ovules 3-5(6), pendulous in middle of locules from top of a central placenta; style short; stigma obtuse. Fruit drupaceous, crowned by vestiges of calyx limb; endocarp crustaceous. Seed pendulous, with a minute apical embryo, surrounded by fleshy endosperm.