Small trees; branchlets glabrous. Leaves glabrous, coriaceous-fleshy, in dry state hard and brittle. Plants dioecious. Flowers in panicle-like branched inflorescences; rachises minutely papillate to puberulous. Inflorescences mostly on the main trunk but also on branches and even in the axils of the uppermost leaves. Flowers 4-or 5-merous. ♂ Flowers sessile, solitary or in groups of 3-5 (mainly at the end of the rachises) in the axil of a minute bract. Tepals re-flexed. Filaments very short, attached to the base of the tepals; anthers relatively large. Disk lobes fleshy, as large as the rudimentary ovary. ♀ Flowers solitary per bract, sometimes in groups of 3-4, with very short pedicels. Tepals adjacent to the ovary; the small staminodes alternating with broad disk lobes. Drupe pedicelled, ellipsoid to slightly ovoid or obovoid; pericarp thin, 1.5-2 mm thick, mesocarp fleshy-juicy, endocarp woody. Embryo nearly as long as the seed, with small radicle (2 mm) and 3-4 long, narrow cotyledons.
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