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Trees with alternate simple entire leaves. Flowers usually paniculate, the ultimate branchlets cymosely branched; hypanthium globose or campanulate, the lobes 5; petals 5, minute or none; stamens 3 to many, inserted at the margin of the hypanthial disk, often connate at base, forming a complete ring or unilaterally disposed; ovary unilocular, sessile at the bottom of the hypanthium, hairy; style basal; fruit drupaceous, various, one-seeded, the pericarp usually leathery or woody.
Shrubs [trees]. Leaves persistent or deciduous; blade margins entire or irregularly crenate. Thyrses terminal [axillary]. Flowers: petals [0 or 4–]5; stamens [3–]14–16[–40]; filaments connate basally to proximally [distinct], glabrous (rarely basally hairy); ovary glabrous or sparsely to densely hairy; styles glabrous [hairy]. Drupes obovoid, ellipsoid, or subglobose; endocarp not longitudinally ribbed. x = 11.
