Shrubs to small trees, monoecious. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina pinnately veined, entire; stipules free, lateral, subulate, subpersistent. Inflorescences unisexual, solitary or in pairs in the leaf axils, discoid-to turbinate-capitate, pedunculate, with a row of bracts at the margin of the receptacle (interfloral bracts present in staminate inflorescences, absent or rudimentary in pistillate ones?). Staminate flowers up to c. 30, completely fused and perianths indistinct; stamens 2, filaments partly connate. Pistillate flowers 2-6, completely fused and the perianths indistinct; ovaries free, stigma 1, capitate. Infructescences subglobose, fleshy, orange to yellow; pericarp crustaceous; seed without endosperm, embryo straight, longitudinally aligned, cotyledons equal, radicle basal, short.
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