Trees or shrubs, resting buds with cataphylls. Leaves usually pubescent at first, often becoming glabrous, entire or dentate, principal secondary veins arched and meeting within the margin. Monoecious. Inflorescence lateral or ter-minal, cymose (racemose in K. streimannii), often pleiochasial, paniculate or fasciculate; pedicels usually thickening distally into the receptacle. Male flowers usually smaller than the females, with a minute ostiole surrounded by 2-4 decussate pairs of tepals; androecium usually with 4 large outer stamens and up to 4 inner smaller stamens or staminodes which may be rudimentary and ± connate, occasionally 5 stamens in the outer whorl or as few as 2 stamens present; anthers opening by a single slit, with a filament or subsessile. Female flowers with the ostiole surrounded by about 5 decussate pairs of tepals; the inner pairs thickened and glandular; the upper half of the receptacle abscissing as a calyptra after anthesis; carpels numerous, stigma obtuse sessile on the apex of the ovary. Drupes sessile or stipitate.
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