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Trees or shrubs, usually deciduous. Young parts usually covered with stellate trichomes. Branchlets with obvious leaf scars and lenticels. Leaves in spirals, 2-or 3-pinnate; leaflets with petiolules; leaflet blades with margin usually dentate or sometimes entire. Thyrses axillary, much branched, consisting of several dichasia. Flowers bisexual. Calyx 5-or 6-parted, imbricate. Petals 5 or 6, white or purple, distinct, linear-spatulate, expanding. Staminal tube cylindric, with 10-12 ribs, mouth expanding, margin 10-12-lobed; anthers 10-12, inserted between filament tube lobes, included or partly exserted. Disk annular. Ovary subglobose, 3-6-locular, with 2 superposed ovules per locule; stigma capitate, 3-6-lobed. Fruit a drupe, subfleshy; stone bony. Seeds pendulous; exotesta hard chitinous; endosperm fleshy, thin, or absent; cotyledons leaflike, thin; radicle cylindric.
Trees. Indumentum of simple, glandular and stellate hairs. Leaves 2–3-pinnate; leaflets subentire to deeply serrate or crenate. Flowers hermaphrodite and ♂ on the same individual (plant andromonoecious). Calyx lobed almost to the base; lobes 5(–6), lanceolate, imbricate. Petals 5(–6), free, imbricate. Staminal tube narrowly cylindric, slightly expanded at the mouth; anthers 10, shortly apiculate; appendages alternating with or opposite to the anthers. Disk annular, free, surrounding the base of the ovary. Ovary 4–8-locular; locules with 2 superposed ovules; style-head scarcely wider than the style, with 4–8 erect stigmatic lobes. Fruit 3–8-locular drupe; locules usually 1-seeded
Trees with simple and stellate-tufted hairs. Leaves 2–3-pinnate. Thyrses axillary; flowers hermaphrodite and male on same tree. Calyx usually 5-lobed to near base. Petals usually 5, free, imbricate. Staminal tube narrowly cylindrical, usually 10-ribbed with 10 bifid or 4-fid filiform lobes; anthers usually 10, inserted at margin of or just within tube. Disc small. Ovary 4–8-locular, each locule with 2 superposed ovules; stylehead capitate to coroniform with 4–8 short stigmatic lobes. Drupe with thick bony endocarp dimpled at both ends. Seeds 1–5, oblong, with leathery seed-coat.
Trees. Leaves alternate, pinnate or bipinnate, leaflets entire or, usually, dentate. Inflorescence an axillary panicle. Flowers purple, showy, 5-to 6-merous; petals con-torted, spreading; staminal tube cylindric, dilated above, 10-to 12-dentate, each tooth cleft; anthers 10-12, included; disk annular; ovary 3-to 6-celled; stigma 5-to 6-lobate; ovules 2 in each cell, superposed. Fruit a drupe enclosing a 1-to 6-celled stone; seeds usually solitary in each cavity; endosperm carnose; cotyledons foliaceous, radicle terete, superior.
Ovary 4–8-locular, each loculus with 2 superposed ovules (the lower pendulous, the upper directed upwards); style elongate, shorter than the staminal tube; style-head scarcely wider than the style, coroniform, with 4–8 erect stigmatic lobes.
Fls 5–6-merous; stamen-tube with 10–12 anthers and 20–24 narrow lobes; ovary on a short disk; fr a drupe with a 5-locular stone; trees with bipinnate lvs. 5, warm part of Old World.
Staminal tube cylindric; anthers 10–12, shortly apiculate, alternating with a pair of narrowly deltate appendages.
Petals 5 (6), free, much longer than the calyx in bud, imbricate (sometimes only distinctly so at the apex).
Leaves 2-or 3-pinnate; leaflets usually rather deeply crenate or serrate.
Fruit drupaceous with 4–8 loosely united pyrenes, each with 1–2 seeds.
Calyx lobed almost to the base, lobes 5 (6), lanceolate, imbricate.
Disk annular, crenulate, free from the ovary and staminal tube.
Indumentum of simple, glandular, and stellate hairs.
Flowers bisexual.
Trees or shrubs.
