Shrubs or trees. Flowers subsessile, glomerate, axillary and lateral. Bractlets 2, enclosing the ovary, often connate at the base. Receptacle distinctly produced above the ovary, at last circumscissile. Sepals 4, imbricate in the bud and enclosing the petals. Petals small, fimbriate. Stamens numerous; filaments incurved in the bud; anthers ovate, dorsifixed, opening with longitudinal slits. Ovary 2-to 3-celled; cells 2-or 4-ovulate, the ovules ascending. Berry globose, crowned with the disc only. Embryo undivided.
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