Shrub or small tree with dense leafy crown; probably monoecious. Leaves pinnate, leaflets entire; lowermost leaflets reduced, stipule-like, one of the pair inserted on or shortly above the petiole, sometimes caducous. Inflorescence axillary, racemose, slender, simple or branched. Flowers regular; sepals 5, united for a very short distance above the base, the lobes unequal, oblong-ovate; petals 5, elliptic-lanceolate to ovate, exceeding the sepals at maturity, scale bilobed, half as large as the limb; disk a complete ring, flat, broad, glabrous. Male flower: stamens 9, glabrous. Female flower: staminodes 8, curved in bud, glabrous; ovary 2-lobed, 2-locular; style truncate, with two stigmatic grooves. Fruit subglobose, grooved.
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