Tree. Twigs apparently without nodal glands. Leaves alternate, petioled. Inflorescences fasciculate, axillary, short; bracts and bracteoles ± persistent; bracts at very base with a pair of inconspicuous glands. Sepals 5 (or 4), equal, connate in basal half and adnate to the base of the petals, caducous as a whole together with the petals at the beginning of fruit-setting by a circumcision, the connate basal part persistent. Petals 5 or 4, connate for ¾, basally adnate to the sepals and halfway to the staminal tube, equal, the free parts half-orbicular. Stamens (8-)10, monadelphous; anthers hairy all round, tetrasporangiate, the inner microsporangiae fused in upper half, shorter than the outer ones; dehiscing at inner side by a sickle-shaped slit common to both loculi. Disk annular, inconspicuous, hairy. Ovary globose, 7-8-locular, each locule with 1 ovule; style terminal, straight; stigma capitate, slightly lobed. Fruit a fleshy globular berry, apically with a remnant of the style, basally with a remnant of the calyx tube. Seeds c. 4, flattened, radially, completely enveloped by an aril; testa very densely hairy; albumen fleshy.
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