Shrub with large, simple, exstipulate leaves. Inflorescence axillary; rachis bearing racemosely arranged umbellules. Pedicels very short with an articulation below the flower. Calyx a short rim with minute lobes. Petals 5 or 6, valvate, triangular. Stamens 5 or 6, filaments thick, anthers large, dorsifixed. Ovary inferior, broadly obconic, (4-)5-6-celled. Disk fleshy with (4-)5-6 stylar arms. Fruit broadly obovoid, strongly ribbed when dry; exocarp fleshy. Pyrenes compressed, crustaceous; endosperm smooth.
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