Small dioecious trees. Leaves large, usually somewhat coriaceous, petiolate; stipules partly connate basally, interstipular, often persistent. Inflorescences ter-minal, pistillate flowers 6-8-merous; male flowers sessile, crowded, disposed in a terminal head; pistillate flowers usually terminal, solitary. Staminate flowers 4-5-merous; corolla hippocrateriform or funnelform, pubescent outside and within, the lobes contorted in bud; anthers 5, linear, dorsifixed; ovary 6-8-celled, the carpels united along their margins, the ovules numerous, the stigmas 6-8. Fruits baccate, large, rotund, the pericarp wall very thick; seeds embedded in a slimy pulp, disposed in rows, horizontally attached.
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