Trees or shrubs; branches pubescent, glabrescent. Leaves usually coriaceous, arcuately veined; veins conspicuously parallel. Inflorescences axillary short fascicled panicles with minute bracts. Flowers small, perfect, 5-merous, articulate below calyx to the short pedicel; calyx campanulate, with imbricate lobes, persistent; petals free, valvate, fleshy, usually sericeous outside, lanate on prominent midrib inside, apex inflexed, minute, glabrous; stamens free, glabrous, filaments flattened, fleshy, anthers ovate-oblong, basifixed or nearly so, thecae longitudinally dehiscent, extrorse, connective fleshy, bilobed or cordate at base; ovary globose or somewhat compressed, hirsute or glabrous, 3-or sometimes 2-celled, often with glabrous fleshy disk-like base; ovules 2 per locule, hanging, collateral; style terminal or eccentric, glabrous, stigma small, capitate or slightly 3-lobed. Drupe globose, dorso-ventrally compressed, asymmetric, ribbed,endocarp with a thick ornamented wall, usually with only one curved seed.
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