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Leaf-lamina oblong or obovate-oblong, finely toothed, with 3 strong nerves from the base; petiole slightly widened just below the leaf-lamina; stipules caducous, very small, subulate.
Stamens 8, all fertile; anther-thecae linear, adnate throughout their length, dehiscing by terminal pores and with the connective prolonged into a small crest.
Fruit oblong-cylindric or fusiform, sulcate, indehiscent, with hard fibrous walls; endocarp with pits containing the seeds.
Inflorescence of leaf-opposed or extra-axillary cymes; cymes 1-several-flowered; bracts very small, caducous.
Seeds discoid with a fleshy endosperm; cotyledons cordate and roundish.
Shrubs or trees, with at least the young parts stellate-pubescent.
Style simple; stigma simple, not wider than the style.
Sepals 5, linear-oblong, stellately hairy outside.
Petals 5, bright yellow, glandless, linear-oblong.
Ovary sessile, 6-10-locular; loculi many-ovuled.
Androgynophore obsolete.
