Trees, evergreen, perennial, dioecious; stems and foliage sometimes with white to pale yellow latex. Indumentum absent. Stipules entire, inconspicuous, deciduous. Leaves alternate, petiolate, elobate, penninerved, toothed, eglandular. Inflorescences axillary, racemiform, unisexual, with flowers in bracteate clusters. Male flowers pedicellate; calyx lobes 2, imbricate, free; petals absent; disc absent; stamens 10–12, filaments free at base; anthers dorsifixed, bilobate, thecae oblong and longitudinally dehiscent; pistillodes absent. Female flowers pedicellate; calyx lobes 2 or 3, imbricate, free; petals absent; disc absent; ovary 2-or 3-locular, ovules uniloculate; styles 3, united at base, entire. Fruit drupaceous, tri-or quadrilobate, surface smooth, indehiscent, fleshy. Seeds globose to subreniform; testa crustaceous; albumen fleshy; ecarunculate; cotyledons broad, flat.
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