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Trees or shrubs, monoecious (sometimes one sex missing); latex white; indumentum absent [or consisting of multicellular, uniseriate, brownish hairs]. Apical buds enclosed by conspicuous large stipules. Leaves alternate; stipules caducous; petioles long, 2-glandular at apex or eglandular; leaf blade sometimes peltate, margin entire [to serrate], pinnately veined. Inflorescence terminal, elongate racemelike thyrses, unbranched. Flowers unisexual, apetalous, without disk. Male flowers 1-3(to many) per bract, pedicellate; calyx 1-or 2-lobed, free, bilaterally compressed; stamens 4-50; filaments nearly as long as anthers, free; anthers basifixed, extrorse, 2-thecate, longitudinally dehiscent; pistillode absent; receptacle flat to elevated. Female flowers usually 1 per bract, pedicellate; calyx 1-3-lobed, free, eglandular or glandular; ovary smooth, papillate to puberulent, with 2(or 3) locules; ovules 1 per locule; style short to distinct; stigmas 2(or 3), glandular below, apex often bifid. Capsule subglobose, regularly or irregularly dehiscent. Seeds 2(or 3) per fruit, reddish to brownish, flattened, partly to completely covered by a whitish arillode; testa crustaceous; cotyledon broad and flattened.
Plant monoec.; fls very small, in terminal racemes, apetalous. ♂ ∞ in upper part of raceme; sepals 1-2, minute; stamens us. ∞. ♀ few or solitary, at base; calyx 2-3-partite; ovary 2-3-celled, ovules 1 per cell; styles 2-3. Capsule fleshy, ind. or splitting into 2-3, 2-valved cocci. Aril fleshy. Shrubs or small trees with alt., entire, stipulate lvs. Some 20 spp. of Polynesia, Malaya, Australia. The N.Z. sp. endemic.
Monoecious shrubs or small trees; sap milky. Lvs stipulate, alternate, entire. ♂ and ♀ fls in the same or separate terminal racemes or spikes. ♂ fls: perianth reduced, of 1-2 segments; petals 0; anthers few to numerous; filaments free. ♀ fls: perianth reduced, in 2-3 segments; petals 0; ovary 2-3-celled, with 1 ovule in each cell; styles 2-3, undivided. Fr. fleshy, indehiscent or dehiscent.
