Tree; foliage with sparse indumentum of simple hairs. Flowers rather large, hermaphrodite, solitary in the axils of fallen leaves, pedunculate. Sepals 3, slightly imbricate, almost completely free. Petals 6, slightly imbricate, in 2 whorls, the inner 3 slightly larger, free, soon spreading; petals 7–9 in pleiomerous flowers. Stamens numerous, forming a hemisphere, narrowly obconic; anther-cells lateral; connective-prolongation truncate; filaments almost obsolete. Carpels several, free, obovoid, 2-ovulate; style well developed, almost obconic, bearing an apical rugulose stigmatic surface. Monocarps indehiscent, globose, on long stipes, 1–2-seeded. Seeds subglobose or plano-convex.
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