Trees, dioecious or monoecious. Leaves alternate, on the lateral branches distichous; stipules not fully amplexicaul, free; blade entire or dentate, pinnately veined. Inflorescences on spurs in the leaf axils, unisexual, discoid-capitate, involucrate. Staminate inflorescences up to 15 together, pedunculate, receptacle revolute, at least before anthesis; tepals 4, at least basally connate; stamens (2-)4; pistillode absent. Pistillate inflorescences solitary, in pairs, or sometimes accompanied by one or 2 staminate ones, sessile or pedunculate, flowers several to numerous; tepals 4(-6), at least basally connate, the two inner tepals cohering on the inner surfaces by entangled thin hairs; ovary almost free; stigmas 2, vittiform, twisted. Infructescences discoid to subglobose; fruiting perianth enlarged, fleshy, yellow to orange; fruit basally adnate to the perianth; seed large, without endosperm, cotyledons thick and equal.
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