Trees. Branchlets slightly 4-angular, usually flat towards the nodes. Terminal and axillary buds prominent. Leaves decussate, simple, entire, petioled. Inflorescences axillary, rarely also terminal, paniculate. Flowers ♂ and bisexual (plants polygamo-andromonoecious). Calyx 3-5-lobed. Petals 3-5, imbricate, glabrous, lengthwise keeled. Stamens 3-5; filaments subulate, glabrous; anthers basifixed, ovoid-oblong. Disk round, flat or slightly concave, sometimes obscure, glabrous. Ovary ovoid or subglobose, 1-celled and 1-ovuled, puberulous or glabrous; style short; stigma round and flat, sometimes 2-or 3-grooved; sterile pistil minute in ♂. Drupe 1-celled; endocarp fibro-crustaceous. Seed with testa adherent to the endocarp; embryo straight, cotyledons free, plano-convex.
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