Calophyllaceae J.Agardh

Trees, hermaphrodite, polygamous-monoecious or dioecious. Frequently glabrous or with simple or branched hairs. Coloured or clear resinous sap sometimes present in secretory canals or cavities. Twigs usually ±flattened. Leaves usually opposite, sometimes spiral (outside Australia), simple, entire, exstipulate, with ±spherical glands. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, flowers usually in cymes, a fascicle, pseudoracemose, pseudopaniculate, or solitary, bracteate. Flowers actinomorphic; perianth of sepals and petals or tepals; calyx (2–) 4–6-merous, lobes free or fused at base, imbricate, usually persistent in fruit; corolla (0–) 3–8-merous, free, imbricate; tepals 4–8 (–13)-merous. Stamens with filaments much narrower than anthers, free or basally connate; anthers basifixed, bilocular, dehiscent by longitudinal slits. Ovary of 1–4 carpels, superior, 1–8-locular with 1 to several ovules per locule; style single (sometimes divided in Mammea); stigma entire, often peltate. Fruit a drupe or berry or septicidal capsule. Seeds 1 (to several outside Australia), sometimes winged (outside Australia), with (outside Australia) or without endosperm.

Uses include construction, food, oil, medicinal, canoe making, and ornamental.