Twining or scrambling shrubs. Leaves alternate, petiolate. Staminate in-florescence axillary, solitary, racemiform, rarely paniculiform. Staminate flowers 3-merous, actinomorphic: Sepals 6-18, the exterior bracteoliform, the interior conspicuously larger, imbricate; petals 6, carnose, antesepalous; stamens 6, ante-petalous, the filaments more or less coherent, dehiscence longitudinal. Pistillate inflorescence axillary, solitary, racemose. Pistillate flovers: Sepals and petals similar to the staminate; staminodia 6 .or wanting; carpels 1-3, gibbose-oblong, the stigma sessile, 3-lobed. Fruit an ovoid-ellipsoidal drupe.
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