Lepidote shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate, ±flat. Flowers axillary, in cymose inflorescences or solitary, 5-merous; pedicels bibracteolate, merging into fleshy receptacle. Sepals free, imbricate. Petals free except in N. phebalioides, imbricate, lepidote or glabrous. Stamens 10, free; filaments glabrous or stellate-hairy; anthers slightly retuse. Disc prominent. Carpels 5, free, with short, sterile apex; style terete with basal branches affixed to adaxial medial surface of carpels; stigma scarcely lobed. Seed broadly ellipsoid to subreniform, 2–2.5 mm long; adaxial margin straight; axial endocarp thin, caducous; aril linear; outer testa thin, smooth, glossy; sclerotesta smooth; hilum superficial, narrowly elliptic; raphe small, thin, covered by outer testa; chalazal opening on lower adaxial face.
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