Thilachium

Shrubs, small trees or scramblers. Leaves alternate, simple or 3-foliolate, petiolate; stipules often caducous. Flowers in corymbose racemes, terminal or axillary. Calyx closed in bud, later rupturing transversely, 'cap' often remaining attached on one side. Petals 0. Stamens many, on a columnar androphore. Ovary on a well-developed gynophore, 1-locular, appearing multilocular owing to development of spurious dissepiments from 6-10 placentas, multiovulate; stigma sessile. Fruit ellipsoid or oblong, with 8-10 longitudinal ribs. Seeds many.