Gynoecium (1–)2–5(–100) carpelled (about 20 in species of Gastonia, Plerandra and Reynoldsia, up to 100 in Tupidanthus). Carpels reduced in number relative to the perianth to increased in number relative to the perianth. The pistil (1–)2–5(–100) celled. Gynoecium syncarpous (nearly always), or monomerous (rarely, at least ostensibly so); of one carpel (in Diplopanax, and ostensibly so in Arthrophyllum and Eremopanax), or synovarious to eu-syncarpous (nearly always, the styles often constituting a solid or sometimes hollow stylopodium); partly inferior to inferior, or superior (recorded only in two species of Tetraplasandra). Carpel when monomeric, i.e. rarely, ostensibly 1 ovuled (but with a second abortive one). Ovary 1–100 locular. Locules without ‘false septa’. Epigynous disk present (with a nectariferous disk between the stylopodium and the stamens). Gynoecium more or less stylate. Styles variously 1–100; when two or more, free, or partially joined; apical. Stigmas usually present, as a frequently double stigmatic crest capping the stylopodium; wet type, or dry type; papillate; Group II type and Group III type. Placentation when unilocular, i.e. rarely, parietal to apical; when bi- or plurilocular, i.e. nearly always, axile to apical. Ovules in the single cavity 1–2 (with one abortive); 1 per locule, or 1–2 per locule (usually with a second abortive one); pendulous; epitropous; with ventral raphe; anatropous; unitegmic; crassinucellate (mostly), or tenuinucellate. Endothelium differentiated. Polar nuclei fusing prior to fertilization. Antipodal cells formed, or not formed (then the three nuclei degenerating early); when formed, 3; not proliferating. Synergids pear-shaped. Hypostase present, or absent. Endosperm formation nuclear.