Endocomia

South China through Southeast Asia and Malesia to New Guinea. Absent from Central and East Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, the Solomon Islands and Australia.

Trees, monoecious. Twigs never angular or ridged, without lenticels, sometimes flaky. Leaves membranous or chartaceous, slightly brittle when dry, lower surface not pale, not papillose, dots absent; reticulation lax, distinct or not. Inflorescences with male and female flowers mixed, sometimes pseudoterminal (terminal bud of twigs abortive), paniculate, branched from near the base; basal cataphylls caducous; bracts caducous; flowers in small clusters, buds either on the same or in different stages of development. Flowers short or long pedicellate, at base not articulated; bracteole absent. Male flowers with rotate, thinly leathery, inside pubescent, yellowish or rarely bright red perianth; buds small, ellipsoid, ovoid or subglobose, cleft to nearly ¾ or nearly to base; lobes 3-5, spread or recurved at anthesis; androecium with a narrow, glabrous androphore; synandrium small (depressed) globose or short-ellipsoid, with 2-6 completely fused, short (0.5 mm. or less) elliptic anthers. Female flowers similar to male; ovary ovoid, glabrous; stigma sessile, minute, 2-lobed, lobes narrow or broad and 2-5 lobulate. Infructescences small or large panicles, to 30 cm. long. Fruits ellipsoid or ovoid, glabrous, yellow or purplish; pericarp thin or thick, fleshy-leathery; aril yellowish or red, subentire or to halfway laciniate; seeds usually pointed at apex, variegated; albumen ruminated, without starch; embryo unknown.