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Monoecious or perhaps occasionally dioecious trees. Leaves alternate, dis-tichous; stipules lateral to fully amplexicaul. Inflorescences globular to turbinate, typically monoecious with 1-2 central pistillate flowers surrounded by numerous minute staminate commingled with more or less conspicuous peltate bracts, but infrequently dioecious. Pistillate flowers: epigynous, the perianth vestigial, the stigma deeply 2-lobed and apparently proterogynous. Staminate flowers with a definite 4-lobed perianth or the perianth vestigial or lacking; stamens 4, 2 or 1, the anthers oblongoid and basifixed to circular and peltate, dehiscing longitudinally to circumscissilly. Fruit a false drupe.
Trees , evergreen; sap milky. Terminal buds surrounded by bud scales. Leaves alternate; stipules caducous, free. Leaf blade oblong, leathery, margins entire, never lobed; venation pinnate. Inflorescences globose heads. Flowers: staminate and pistillate on same plants; perianth vestigial. Staminate flowers numerous, surrounding 1-2 central pistillate flowers; stamen 1, straight; anther peltate, dehiscence circumscissile. Pistillate flowers borne inside receptacle; bracts peltate; ovary 1, inferior, 1-locular; style 2-branched. Syncarps somewhat globose; each achene embedded in enlarged, pulpy receptacle. x = 13.
