Shrubs or trees, usually monoecious, with saponin in bark and pericarp; indumentum stellate, of both dense fine pale sessile hairs and scattered, dark, large, coarse stipitate hairs. Leaves paripinnate or imparipinnate; leaflets 3–7, apiculate. Panicles terminal or axillary; cymules cincinnate. Flowers irregular. Calyx deeply 5-lobed; lobes imbricate. Petals 4–6, imbricate, shortly clawed, scales and crests absent. Disc unilateral or complete. Stamens 5–8, excentric, anterior to disc. Ovary stipitate, anterior to disc, 3-locular; ovules 2 per locule; style filiform; stigma ± capitate. Capsule obovoid, 3-sulcate, apiculate; lobes inflated, 2-seeded, loculicidally 2-valved, septifragal; valves subcrustaceous, hairy outside, glabrous inside. Seed orbicular, exarillate.
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