Shrubs, lianas or climbing shrubs, often with large tuberous rhizomes. Leaves entire, pubescent to glabrous. Inflorescences large terminal or supra-axillary panicles; pedicels bracteolate, articulate below calyx. Flowers minute, perfect; calyx deeply 5(-6)-lobed; petals 5(-6), free; filaments glabrous, thickened at base, attenuate upwards and inflexed, anthers triangular with subglobose to ovate thecae, introrse, dorsi-basifixed, connective conspicuously prolonged above thecae; ovary ovoid, hirsute, unilocular, style usually 1, short, glabrous, stigma capitate. Fruits peach-like drupes, pericarp densely pubescent, endocarp woody, pubescent inside; seed 1, pendulous, testa thin.
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