Dioecious or monoecious shrubs or small trees with a simple indumentum. Leaves alternate, very shortly petiolate or subsessile, elobate, shallowly repand or denticulate, minutely glandular beneath towards the base, penninerved. Stipules very fugacious. Inflorescences unisexual, racemose, the ♂ ones fascicled, arising from the old wood, the ♀ axillary, laxly flowered; ♂ flowers 1–2 per bract, ♀ 1 per bract. Male flowers: pedicels jointed; calyx ovoid and acute in bud, later valvately 2–3(–5)-partite, hyaline; petals 0; disc-glands numerous, free, disposed amongst the stamens; stamens (10–)12–15, filaments free, the anthers elliptic-oblong, apiculate, dorsifixed, introrse and extrorse, the thecae partially free at the base, longitudinally dehiscent, the connective narrow; pistillode 0. Female flowers: sepals 4–5, ? imbricate; petals 0; disc hypocrateriform, with 4–5 marginal lobes alternating with the sepals; ovary 3-locular, with 1 ovule per locule; styles 3, ± free or slightly connate at the base, bipartite to multifid and papillose at the apices. Fruit trilobate, dehiscing septicidally into 3 bivalved cocci; endocarp thinly woody; columella persistent, triquetrous. Seeds ovoid, ecarunculate.
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