Trees or shrubs, deciduous. Leaf blade 5-foliolate; leaflet blades on both surfaces with sparsely scattered, conspicuous, brown or dark red glands, margin entire. Thyrse shortly cylindric-conic; branches compound; bracts subulate, small. Flowers rather small. Sepals connate only at base. Petals ± equal, narrowly oblong or oblanceolate, not clawed, reflexed from middle, with 2 small scales at base adaxially. Ovary fusiform with a long gynophore; style short; stigma 3-lobed. Capsule pyriform, abruptly tapering at base into a long (1-1.5 cm) gynophore, 1-5-seeded; pericarp smooth. Seeds subovoid or ± ellipsoid, relatively small (0.8-1.1 cm); testa glossy black; hilum a 2-layered arillode occupying ca. 1/2 of seed.
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