Stenocarpus

Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple (rarely pinnate or bipinnate), margins entire or toothed to pinnatisect, petiolate. Inflorescence axillary or terminal, umbel-like. Flowers zygomorphic, pedicellate, in pairs subtended by a caducous bract; tepals cream, white, greenish or red, initially coherent but slit by the style on the lower side, eventually all 4 tepals splitting to the base, apices globular, recurved; anthers sessile; hypogynous glands united into a crescent or partial ring; ovary stipitate, ovules numerous, in 2 rows; style long and curved, tip dilated into an oblique pollen presenter, stigma maturing after anthers. Fruit a leathery follicle; seeds numerous, in two rows, winged, enclosed by a membranous pouch.