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Stamens 5–9; filaments white, coiled in bud, arcuate at anthesis, scarcely longer than the sepals, flattened at the base and appearing united for at least 1/3 of length; Staminodes appearing partly or completely united to form a short comb-or tongue-like structure.
Receptacle-tube always curved, obliquely campanulate, slightly to strongly gibbous, nearly always markedly oblique at the mouth, always longer than the sepals, glabrous inside only at the base.
Inflorescence a many-flowered panicle, usually thyrsoid, sometimes extremely contracted and racemoid.
Ovary monocarpellary, 1-locular (2-locular in only 1 species), inserted at mouth of receptacle-tube.
Drupe fleshy; endocarp hairy inside, on germination breaking up in an irregular manner.
Style arcuate, scarcely longer than the sepals, glabrous or hairy only at the base.
Lower leaf surface glabrous or with a few strigose hairs.
Sepals 5, acute, usually very unequal in size.
Petals 5, longer than the sepals, persistent.
Germination hypogeal; first leaves opposite.
Trees, shrubs or geoxylic sufirutices.
Flowers markedly zygomorphic.