Shrubs. Leaves alternate, sessile. Inflorescence lateral, abbreviated, anauxotelic. Flowers subtended by scale leaves. Perianth actinomorphic; tepals free. Stamens all fertile; filaments adnate to tepals; anthers slightly incurved, flattened; connective slightly wider than loculi, extending beyond loculi as a rounded, slightly concave appendage. Hypogynous glands 4, equal. Gynoecium longer than stamens; ovary contracted at base, sessile; style recurved at tip but otherwise straight; ovules 2. Pyrene transversely ribbed; seed 1. Cotyledons 2.
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