Monoecious shrubs or perennial herbs, usually suckering, usually with simple and glandular hairs. Leaves alternate, simple, entire, lobed or deeply divided; stipular lobes often present. Flowers in terminal panicles, pedicellate. Sepals 5, free, oblong to ovate or obovate, usually pubescent, persistent in fruit. Petals 4, rarely 5, clawed, pink or white, glabrous or sparsely or minutely pubescent outside. Disc attached beside ovary, expanded into 2 large lobes, the inner usually erect, margin usually lobed or toothed. Stamens 8, turned to one side of flower; in female flowers rudimentary. Ovary 3-lobed, pubescent or hirsute and with glandular hairs; gynoecium in male flowers rudimentary. Fruit a loculicidal capsule or schizocarp of 3 indehiscent obovoid cocci. Seeds 1 or 2 per locule, arillate.
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