Couratari Aubl.

Canopy to emergent trees. Leaves scattered along branches, small to medium sized (3-20 cm long), glabrous or pubescent, the pubescence sometimes stellate; venation not markedly percurrent. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, racemose or once-branched paniculate arrangements of racemes, growth of rachises determinate. Flowers present with or without leaves depending on species, zygomorphic; sepals 6; petals 6, flat at apices; staminal lip present; androecial hood fully coiled, bearing vestigial stamens, with external flap, the flap smooth or echinate externally, the stamens not reflexed, the anthers laterally dehiscent; ovary 3-locular, ovules numerous, attached to base of locular, the style with stylar collar. Fruit dehiscent, remaining on tree at maturity, cylindric, pericarp relatively thin. Seeds circumferentially winged, numerous, flattened, not embedded in pulp, the testa glabrous; cotyledons leaf-like, opposite.