Woody plants with scabrid, hairy branches. Leaves with amplexicaul sheath and short petiole. Flowers regular in calyx and corolla, zygomorphic in androecium and gynoecium, placed one-sided on simple or bifurcate branches of a 4-6-branched panicle with reduced central axis, almost sessile. Sepals and petals 5. Stamens in 2 bundles on the adaxial side of the carpels, each bundle consisting of 1 stamen and 4 staminodes with connate filaments, the stamen uncinate-curved, exceeding the staminodes, with longitudinally dehiscent linear anthercells, the connective forming a deltoid membrane above the cells, the staminodes only slightly curved. Carpels 2, with a long filiform style; ovule 1, inserted at the base. Fruit a nut. Seed with a thin membranaceous aril.
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