Trees or shrubs, erect or climbing. Leaves alternate, entire, exstipulate. Flowers bisexual, rarely unisexual, often extra-axillary. Sepals 3, rarely 2, free or united, usually valvate. Petals usually 6, biseriate, usually thick and fleshy, valvate or slightly imbricate. Stamens usually numerous; filaments short or 0; anther cells adnate to the outside of a broad usually produced connective. Carpels 1 or more, apocarpous, rarely syncarpous; ovules 1 or more; styles short or 0. Fruit of 1 or more, sessile or stalked, 1- or many - seeded, usually indehiscent carpels. Seeds large.

128 genera and 2106 species

Monoon longifolium