Tall trees. Leaves entire, glabrescent. Inflorescences axillary panicles, branched from base. Flowers small, perfect, sessile or subsessile, articulate below the calyx, subtended by 3 imbricate sericeous bracts; calyx fleshy, sericeous, with 5 imbricate lobes; petals free, fleshy, margins incurved, apex inflexed, midrib prominent, longitudinally furrowed and partly pubescent inside; stamens 5, glabrous, filaments fleshy, flattened, broadened at middle, abruptly narrowed towards anthers, anthers oblong, basifixed, connective broad, tapering into inflexed top, thecae lateral on connective, laterally dehiscent; ovary globose, glabrous, 1-celled, style short, stigma capitate. Fruit a drupe, ovoid to ellipsoid, somewhat oblique, mesocarp fleshy, containing oil, endocarp woody; seed with embryo minute, curved or nearly straight.
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