3. Pinanga Blume, Rumphia 2:76 (1839).

Small trees, stems clustered, slender, smooth with distant annular scars. Leaf Sheaths tubular, scaly, upper usually forming a crown shaft, flagellum and ocrea absent. Petiole well developed, scurfy. Leaves paripinnate, 5–11; leaflets reduplicate, several costate, apical leaflets lobed. Monoecious. Inflorescence infrafoliar, pendent, unbranched (spicate), eflagellate; peduncle flattened, usually short; prophyll membranous, deciduous. Flowers sessile, subtended by minute triangular bracteoles, arranged in triads of 1 female flower with 2 male flowers. Male flower: calyx small, cup-like, 3-pointed; corolla asymmetric, lobed to base, lobes 3, fleshy; stamens (6–) 12–30, filaments short, anthers basally attached, dehiscing latrorsely. Female flowers globose, symmetric, calyx lobed to base, similar to corolla, lobes imbricate; staminodes absent; style short, stout; stigma irregularly lobed, papillose. Fruit 1-seeded, pink, globose to ellipsoid, smooth.

Worldwide 130 species (Mabberley 2017; Henderson 2009). One species in Nepal.