Morella Lour.

Mostly aromatic dioecious, monoecious or polygamous evergreen or deciduous shrubs or small trees with terminal buds. Leaves entire or coarsely toothed; stipules absent. Perianth absent. Male: bracts present; stamens 1–22; filaments simple or branched, arising at different levels from the staminal column. Female: bracts subtending several ovaries or solitary, simple and 1-flowered; ovary glabrous or pilose and ± covered with persistent ± globose wax-secreting papillae. Bracteoles present in both sexes often forming a small cup in female, persistent and not enlarging. Fruit drupaceous, either with imbricate succulent papillae or not succulent and covered with wax.