Filaments 10, fused in the lower half to form a staminal tube; anthers inserted between a pair of deltate-acuminate appendages which slightly exceed them in length.
Ovary (in our area) with 2 (3) loculi, each loculus with 1 ovule; style-head capitate, surmounted by 2–3 erect stigmatic lobes.
Disk absent but base of staminal tube apparently slightly modified for nectar secretion.
Petals 5, free, much longer than the calyx in bud, induplicate-valvate.
Leaves imparipinnate, leaflets entire, stellate-puberulous.
Flowers bisexual, borne in large cymose panicles.
Calyx cupuliform with 5 minute teeth.
Fruit drupaceous, indehiscent.
Trees.