Sarcopetalum

Trailing vine or liane. Petioles 2–10 cm long; lamina broadly ovate to deltoid, 4–15 cm long and wide, cordate at base, usually slightly peltately attached, prominently 7-nerved from point of attachment, glossy and glabrous. Inflorescence a raceme 2–10 cm long, often 2 or more adjacent, usually arising from older growth; pedicels 2–7 mm long, each subtended by a triangular bract c. 2 mm long; sepals and petals 4 or 6, in 2 whorls, free; sepals triangular, c. 1–2 mm long, margins often irregularly incised, minutely rusty-pubescent; petals broadly clavate, fleshy, slightly exceeding sepals, glabrous; male flowers with 4–8 stamens largely united into a column c. 0.5 mm long, anthers subsessile at apex of column; female flowers with 4–6 carpels, stigmas bifid, largely adnate to and recurved from apex of carpels. Drupe flattened globoid to reniform, c. 7 mm diam., warty over dorsal surface.