Genus: 7 species.
Region: northern South America, Brazil.
Habitat: moist forests, Atlantic forest.
BotanyTrees or shrubs.
Stem: buttressed.
Leaves: clustered distally on branchlets; petiolules lacking pulvinuli; leaflet margin serrate, serrulate; freely ending veinlets highly branched.
Inflorescence: pseudospicate.
Flowers: 5-merous, obdiplostemonous or haplostemonous; petals distinct; disk usually glabrous; pistillode in male flowers either containing locules and reduced ovules or sometimes reduced to a parenchymatous cylinder; pistil 5-locular; style unbranched, stigmas 5.
Fruit: obliquely ovoid, maturing orange to yellowish, red, valves white or pale red within, pericarp thinly cartilaginous, pseudaril white, pyrenes cartilaginous; testa papery, cotyledons plano-convex and uncinately folded to form a ‘J’- or ‘U’-shaped structure; germination phanerocotylar, first eophylls opposite, simple, margin crenate.