Dioecious, epiphytic or free standing shrubs and trees. Leaves obovate, co-riaceous, short petiolate. Inflorescences short, mostly branching cymes, each divarication subtended by a pair of minute cucullate bracts. Flowers small, sepals 4, decussate; petals 4, decussate, thick, rotund; stamens 4, opposite the petals, the filaments basally thickened, narrowed under the anther, connate or free, the anthers ovate, 2-loculed, in pistillate flowers the anthers reduced or obsolete; styles 4, short. Fruit a capsule dehiscing into 4 valves; seeds few or many, arillate.
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