Tree. Leaves spiral, simple, entire, petioled. Inflorescences axillary, paniculate. Flowers bisexual. Calyx 5-(or 4-)lobed. Petals 5 (or 4), imbricate, glabrous except the sparsely hairy margin. Stamens twice the number of petals; filaments subulate; anthers basifixed, with 2 separated anther-cells, overtopped by prolonged, dilated and apically two-lobed connective, lobes pustular especially when young. Disk intrastaminal, shortly cupular, crenulate on the margin, glabrous. Carpels 5, free, each 1-ovuled, only one fertile. Ovary subglobose, pilose; style obscure; stigma oblique; sterile carpels smaller, bent outward. Drupe (very young) lentiform (STAPF, l.c.).
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