Trees or shrubs. Leaves persistent, alternate, coriaceous, entire, penninerved, the nerves often steeply ascending, reticulation markedly raised on both faces, petioled, exstipulate. Flowers bisexual, small, solitary, or rarely 2 or 3 together from the same axil, subsessile, subtended by several minute imbricate suborbicular bracts. Sepals 5 or 6, uniseriate, imbricate. Petals 0. Stamens indefinite in number, inserted on a flat receptacle, with numerous hairs between the filiform filaments; anthers small; connective generally rather obscure. Disk-glands several, small, along the edge of the receptacle. Ovary with 2–4 placentas which bear few to numerous ovules; style columnar, often ± deeply 3-lobed or-partite distally. Fruit baccate, hardly or tardily and irregularly dehiscent; pericarp coriaceous. Seeds few; testa hard.
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