Eschweilera Mart. ex DC.

Understorey, canopy, or emergent trees. Leaves scattered along branches, small to large-sized (5-59 cm long), glabrous; venation reticulate. Inflorescences cauline, terminal, or axillary, racemose or spicate or once-branched paniculate arrangements of racemes or spikes, growth of rachises determinate. Flowers present with, zygomorphic; sepals (4)6; petals (4)6, flat at apices; staminal lip present; androecial hood fully coiled, bearing vestigial stamens, the stamens not reflexed, the anthers laterally dehiscent; ovary 2(4)-locular, ovules numerous, attached to base of locular, the style without stylar collar. Fruit dehiscent, remaining on tree at maturity, usually globose or depressed globose, less frequently turbinate, pericarp relatively thin to thick. Seeds not winged, few to numerous per locule, thick, often flat on two sides and rounded on the other two, not embedded in pulp, the testa glabrous; cotyledons absent; embryo macropodial.