Shrubs or small trees, twigs puberulous. Leaves glabrous, but midrib hairy above, coriaceous. Plants dioecious. Flowers in racemes, 1-3 pedicelled flowers per bract; rachis of inflorescence slender, glabrous, rarely with some scattered hairs. Bracts broadly cordate, green, with hyaling ciliate margin, densely imbricate, caducous before anthesis, only some basal (smaller) bracts persistent. ♂ Flowers (3-) 4 (-5)-merous. Tepals free, oblong, acute, reflexed. Stamens exceeding the perianth. Disk annular, fleshy. Pistil rudimentary. ♀ Flowers without perianth and stamens. Disk annular, thinly-fleshy. Ovary ± conical; stigma sessile. Drupe almost globular, mesocarp juicy, endocarp thinly crustaceous; embryo nearly as long as the seed, with 3-4 long, linear cotyledons.
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