Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire, glabrous to densely stellate-hairy. Inflorescence axillary, racemose. Flowers unisexual by abortion. Male flowers: sepals absent (? always); petals (4–)5; stamens 5, opposite the petals and alternating with the disk-lobes; anthers dithecous; ovary rudimentary. Female flowers: sepals absent or minute; petals 5, borne on the outer edge of the receptacle; staminodes 5; filaments without anther-thecae, opposite petals, alternating with disk-lobes; ovary 1 or 3(–4)-locular, inferior; ovules 1 per locule; style short; stigma 3–5-lobed, irregularly divided. Fruit a drupe, ellipsoid or spherical, surmounted by persistent petals, single-seeded. Seed furrowed longitudinally by inner surface of the endocarp.
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