Trees. Leaves alternate. Conflorescence raceme-like, pendulous, axillary and borne on the branches. Flowers bisexual or male, slightly zygomorphic, shortly pedicellate on a common peduncle; common and floral bracts present at anthesis. Tepals valvate, coiled and reflexed at anthesis, dilated at apex, densely pubescent abaxially, glabrous adaxially. Hypogynous glands 3, turgid. Stamens 4; anthers bilocular, basifixed, dehiscing by longitudinal slits. Ovary sessile; ovules 1 or 2; style linear, subulate, scarcely swollen at apex; pollen presenter fusiform to clavate; stigmatic surface terminal. Fruit a 1-or 2-seeded follicle, ±green until maturity. Seeds flat, narrowly elliptic, with a marginal wing.
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