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Trees. Leaves simple, alternate, entire. Inflorescences axillary. Flowers bisexual. Calyx lobes 5, rarely 4 or 6. Petals 5, rarely 4 or 6, imbricate, glabrous. Stamens twice number of petals; filaments subulate, glabrous; anthers basifixed, often sagittate. Disc cupular, crenulate, sulcate outside. Carpels 4–6, connate only at base; fertile carpel 1, with a reduced style and obsolete stigma, 1-locular; ovule 1, basally attached by an erect filiform funicle; sterile carpels with a prominent stigma and functioning as gynobasic styles. Drupe usually ±lens-shaped; exocarp and mesocarp thin; endocarp woody or bony. Seed with testa free from endocarp; cotyledons free, plano-convex.
Trees or shrubs. Leaves simple, spirally inserted; leaf blade margin entire. Inflorescence paniculate, terminal or axillary. Flowers small, bisexual, 5-merous, white, fragrant, sessile to shortly pedicellate. Calyx small, with 4-6 rounded lobes. Petals imbricate in bud. Stamens 2 × as many as petals; anthers lanceolate to oblong, often sagittate. Disk intrastaminal, cupular, sulcate to crenulate. Carpels 4-6 free, usually only 1 fertile; ovary 1-locular, 1-ovulate; style short; stigma capitate. Drupe with a thick woody endocarp. Seed testa not adnate to endocarp.
