Trees. Hairs absent. Hypocotyl obsolete. Shoots with a basal series of cataphylls. Leaves alternate, simple, entire, petiolate; venation brochidodromous, with intramarginal loops forming an undulating, intramarginal vein. Conflorescence ramiflorous, unbranched; flower pairs bracteate, pedunculate. Flowers actinomorphic, bisexual, bracteate, pedicellate. Tepals not coherent, revolute. Staminal filaments adnate to tepals; anthers free, oblong-ovate, apiculate. Hypogynous glands 4, free, fleshy, truncate. Ovary sessile; ovules 2, orthotropous, pendulous; style filiform, terminated by ovoid pollen presenter; stigma terminal. Fruit ±globose, with ventral axis longer than dorsal axis, indehiscent; outer mesocarp succulent, lacking radiating vascular or fibrous strands; inner mesocarp bony, smooth. Seed 1, wingless, fleshy.
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