Shrub or small tree, dioecious. Leaves regularly serrate, thickly chartaceous to somewhat coriaceous. Inflorescences (sub-) terminal or axillary cymes, 1–3-flowered. Male flowers turbinate to ovoid; tepals 4, triangular; stamens numerous, on lower wall and floor of receptacle; anthers dehiscing by two slits or these confluent above; connective not prolonged into an appendage; filaments very short. Female flowers larger than male, depressed globose-turbinate; tepals 4; upper part of receptacle falling as a calyptra; carpels numerous, scattered on floor of receptacle, the ovary densely pubescent with long hairs; stigma long and subulate; staminodes absent. Fruiting receptacle convex and enlarged. Fruit forming as a tight cluster of sessile drupes.
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