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Elegant trees; twigs glabrous, dark grey, warty. Leaves simple or 1–many-times pinnate, usually including a terminal leaflet; petiole and rhachis winged or not; leaflets with wax dots, glossy. Inflorescences axillary, narrowly paniculate, each containing both male and female flowers. Sepals 5, free.. Petals minute, without claw or scales. Disk circular, densely shaggy-white-hairy. Stamens 5; anthers dorsifixed, sagittate. Ovary globose; ovary-rudiment in male flower absent. Fruit a 1-seeded drupe, purple, glabrous and shining. Seed without aril; cotyledons contorted.
Ovary 2-locular; loculi 1-ovulate; ovule pendent from the apex of the loculus; pistillode in male flowers.
Stamens 5, inserted between the lobes of the disk, sterile in female flowers.
Inflorescence a terminal or axillary paniculate thyrse.
Leaves paripinnate with winged rhachis.
Flowers functionally male or female.
Fruit drupaceous, 1–2-locular.
Seeds 1–2, without arillode.
Sepals 5, persistent.
Trees or shrubs.
Disk lanate.
Petals 5.
