Shrubs or small trees. Branchlets minutely stellate-lepidote or sometimes pilose. Leaves flat, estipulate. Flowers 5-merous, solitary, axillary; pedicel with 5–12 scattered sepaloid bracteoles. Sepals coriaceous, imbricate. Petals imbricate, stellate-lepidote, multiveined. Stamens pyramidally arranged; filaments free, woolly-ciliate, swollen and verrucose at apex; anthers white-apiculate or blunt. Intrastaminal disc annular. Carpels free. Cocci rostrate or erostrate. Seed sessile, reniform, c. 6 mm long; outer testa ±coriaceous, black, glossy; sclerotesta smooth.
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