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Androecium of 5 fascicles of stamens with few stamens in each fascicle, with the filaments fused for most of their length, and with 5 fleshy scale-like fasciclodes alternating with the fascicles.
Petals 5, ± villous within, glanduliferous, sometimes with swollen nectariferous tissue at the base.
Leaves opposite, petiolate, entire, with opaque glandular dots and stellate or dendroid indumentum.
Ovary 5-locular; styles 5, free or united at the base; ovules 2 (3) per loculus, basal.
Fruit a drupe with 5 pyrenes cohering to form a spherical mass.
Inflorescence a terminal corymbose panicle.
Sepals 5, glanduliferous.
Seeds cylindric, curved.
Flowers bisexual.
Trees or shrubs.
