Trees; branches lepidote-tomentose to glabrescent. Leaves entire. Inflorescences axillary, paniculate, densely stellate-pubescent, bracteate, with glomerules of sessile flowers. Flowers small, perfect, articulate below calyx; calyx 5-parted, fleshy, the lobes stellate-pubescent, imbricate; corolla gamopetalous, 5-lobed, glabrous, the inflexed apices with long clavate appendages; stamens 5, filaments glabrous, dilated at base, inserted in the throat of corolla at sinuses, anthers oblong, dorsifixed, longitudinally dehiscent, introrse, thecae diverging at base; ovary dorso-ventrally compressed, stellate-pubescent, 1-celled, style stout, short, stigma minute, capitate. Fruit a drupe; seed 1, embryo minute, endosperm copious.
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