Shrubs to small trees. Leaves odd-pinnate to simple, the leaflets petiolulate. Inflorescences terminal or axillary panicles, often large. Flowers hermaphriditic or less fre-quently polygamo-dioecious, short-pedicellate or sessile; calyx short-cupulate, dis-tally with 4-5 shallow, broad teeth; petals 4-5, valvate or subvalvate; stamens 8-10, the filaments subulate, the anthers dorsifixed; disc intrastaminal; ovary 1-locular, the solitary ovule subapical, the style short, persistent, terminating in a 3-lobed stigma. Fruit drupaceous, compressed, the endocarp chartaceous; seed virtually fill-ing the lumen of the drupe.
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