Asteranthos Desf.

Understorey to canopy trees. Leaves scattered along branches, medium-sized (4-13 cm long), glabrous; secondary venation reticulate, obscure. Inflorescences axillary, solitary. Flowers present with leaves, actinomorphic; sepals fused, with triangular, trichome-tipped projections around rim; petals fused, with triangular, erose, trichome-tipped projections around rim, yellow (called pseudo-corolla in Prance & Mori, 1979); stamens adnate to base of corolla, not reflexed, the anthers laterally dehiscent; ovary semi-inferior, 5-8-locular, ovules 4 in each locule, attachment unknown, the style without stylar collar, the stigma 5-8 lobed. Fruit indehiscent, dropping from tree at maturity, pyramidal, the calyx persisting as skirt around middle of fruit, the pericarp thin. Seeds not winged, one per fruit, ovoid, not embedded in pulp, the testa glabrous; embryo small, cylindric, slender, curved, the cotyledons 2, membranous, inconspicuous; endosperm ruminate.