Gynochthodes

Woody climbers, rarely shrubs or trees. Leaves petiolate, opposite, sometimes with domatia; stipules interpetiolar, united, membranous. Inflorescence terminal or axillary subglobose to hemispherical heads. Flowers bisexual and functionally unisexual or unisexual and plants dioecious, sessile or sometimes pedicellate; calyx truncate, denticulate, sinuate, or with up to 5 lobes; calyx-tube connate; corolla-tube cylindric, campanulate or urceolate, 2–5-lobed, shorter than corolla lobes, rarely as long as or longer than corolla lobes, valvate in bud; stamens as many as corolla-lobes, inserted in throat of corolla-tube; anthers partly exserted; ovaries inferior, basally to completely fused, 2-locular each with a false septum; ovules 2 per locule, 1 per cell; style 2-lobed, exserted; stigmas linear. Fruit of 1-seeded drupes, usually united in a head to form a fleshy syncarp. Seeds globose or semi-globose.