Woody twiners or sometimes erect shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate, petiolate. Staminate inflorescence axillary, fasciculate, spiciform or racemiform. Staminate flowers 3-merous, actinomorphic: Sepals 6, the exterior bracteoliform, the interior conspicuously larger, imbricate; petals 6, antesepalous; stamens 6, ante-petalous, free or the filaments connate at the base, dehiscence longitudinal. Pistil-late inflorescence axillary, solitary, racemose. Pistillate flowers: Sepals and petals similar to the staminate; staminodia 6; carpels 3, free, gibbose; style reflexed. Drupes sessile, curved; exalbuminous.
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