Small trees or shrubs, often of palm-like habit with unbranched trunks. Leaves pinnate, large; leaflets many, glabrous, some with epidermal glands. Inflorescence arising variously from roots, trunk or branches, pseudoracemose or thyrsoid; plants probably usually dioecious. Flowers slightly irregular with 4 petals crowded to one side and the stamens or ovary at the opposite side; calyx unequally 5-lobed, united into a cup to half-way or more; petals 4, oblong, clawed, with a tongue-like scale up to 2/3 as long as the limb and sometimes bearing a simple or lobed appendage on its abaxial side; disk asymmetrical, lobed. Stamens 7–8(–15); filaments conspicuously hairy; anthers pilose or glabrous. Ovary lobed, 3–several-locular; style entire. Fruit an indehiscent lobed or ribbed drupe. Seed 1 per locule without arils.
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