Woody climbers, without prickles. Leaves slightly peltate, penniveined. Inflorescences axillary or terminal on lateral branches, narrowly paniculate, without accrescent bracts. Male flowers: sepals 8 or 9, imbricate, in whorls of 3, the outermost whorl of 2 or 3 sepals smallest; petals 6, free, flat, fleshy; stamens c. 18–20, free or only partly connate; anthers dehiscing vertically. Female flowers: staminodes absent; carpels 3; stigma lobulate. Drupes without stipe or carpophore; style-scar near base; endocarp bony, ± rotund in outline, subcompressed, dorsally obscurely ridged or spinulose, laterally imperforate. Seed deeply curved around a flat, bilamellate condyle; endosperm absent; cotyledons thick.
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