Small shrubs. Branches slender, striate. Leaves alternate, simple, entire, fleshy, sessile or almost so. Flowers solitary, axillary, sessile, ebracteolate, bisexual. Perianth cup-shaped, 5-lobed with a deep radicular split, glabrous or pubescent. Stamens 5. Fruiting perianth globular or depressed-globular, succulent with cartilaginous to woody inner layer, vertically split opposite radicle (the succulent margins overlapping); lobes short, succulent, obscuring ovary; wing (if present) forming a shallow undulate cup around apex of perianth and split opposite radicle. Pericarp crustaceous above, membranous below. Seed horizontal; testa membranous; embryo annular; perisperm central; radicle centrifugal.
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