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Trees, evergreen, with latex; monoecious. Stipules small, adnate to petiole, caducous. Leaves alternate, distichous; leaf blade margin entire or sometimes serrate; veins pinnate. Male inflorescences discoid, fleshy, many-flowered, without interfloral bracteoles, pedunculate. Involucral bracts imbricate, persistent in fruit. Female inflorescences 1-flowered, sessile or pedunculate. Male flowers: shortly pedicellate; calyx lobes (3 or)4, spatulate, fleshy, apically concave; stamens 3-8, straight in bud, included; pistillode absent. Female flowers: usually solitary in a pear-shaped receptacle, covered by numerous bracts, without sepals; ovary enclosed in involucre and adnate to receptacle; style subuliform, 2-branched, curved, exserted, pubescent. Fruit partly immersed in fleshy receptacle, fleshy, bracts persistent. Seed with hard exotesta; cotyledons fleshy, equal in size; embryo ± globose; radicle small.
Trees, monoecious or dioecious, with self-pruning lateral branches. Leaves distichous on the lateral branches, pinnately veined; stipules semi-amplexicaul, free. Inflorescences on minute spurs unisexual, in the leaf-axils or just below the leaves, involucrate. Staminate inflorescences pedunculate; flowers numerous; tepals 2–7, free; stamens 2–4, straight in bud; pistillode absent. Pistillate inflorescences sessile or pedunculate, uniflorous; perianth partly adnate to the receptacle, 4-lobed; ovary adnate to the perianth; stigmas 2, band-shaped, equal. Fruit forming a drupaceous whole with the enlarged fleshy orange to scarlet receptacle. Seed large, without endosperm; cotyledons thick, equal.
Monoecious trees with latex turning dark on exposure. Leaves alternate, often distichous, simple; stipules free. Male inflorescence many-flowered, with an involucre of bracts. Male flowers: tepals 2–7; stamens 2–4 with straight filaments; pistillode absent. Female inflorescence with 1 or 2 flowers, with involucre of bracts. Female flowers: tepals 4; ovary partly adnate to receptacle; stigmas 2. Fruit a drupe, ellipsoidal to pyriform. Embryo straight.
Pistillate inflorescences sessile or pedunculate, uniflorous; perianth partly adnate to the receptacle, 4-lobed; ovary adnate to the perianth, stigmas 2, ligulate, equal.
Fruit forming a drupaceous whole together with the enlarged fleshy, orange to scarlet-coloured receptacle; seed large, without endosperm; cotyledons thick, equal.
Staminate inflorescences pedunculate; flowers numerous; tepals 2–7, free: stamens 2–4, straight in bud; pistillode absent.
Inflorescences on minute spurs, in the leaf axils or just below the leaves, unisexual, involucrate.
Leaves distichous on the lateral branches, pinnately veined; stipules semi-amplexicaul, free.
Trees, monoecious or dioecious; lateral branches self-pruning.
