Trees, trunk basally swollen. Leaves distinctly 3-5-veined. Inflorescences axillary, 1-3(-4)-flowered clusters in the upper axils of normal or aborted leaves, or grouped on spike-like axillary short shoots. Flowers hypogynous, small, subsessile, each flower subtended by a bract and 2 minute bracteoles. Calyx cupuliform, 5-denticulate, small, persistent, not accrescent; petals 5, connate in the lower part, lobes triangular; stamens 10, filaments filiform, adnate to the basal parts of the petals, anthers subquadrate-suborbicular; ovary superior, glabrous, 2-3-locular, style very short, stigma very slightly 3-lobed. Drupe with fleshy exocarp, thin woody endocarp and 1 large seed.
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