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Male flowers: sepals 3–4(5), imbricate; petals 3–4(5), imbricate; stamens 6–8(10), the episepalous slightly longer, inserted below the annular crenulate disk; vestigial ovary 3–4-lobulate, at the centre of the disk.
Female flowers: ± similar to the male ones, with small staminodes; ovary globose, 3–4(5)-locular; styles 3–4(5), subterminal, very short.
Drupe oblong-obovoid with resinous mesocarp and woody endocarp, 3–4(5)-operculate at the apex, usually with only 1 loculus fertile.
Leaves alternate, imparipinnate, the lateral leaflets asymmetric at the base, petiolulate, with the secondary nerves curved.
Flowers dioecious in axillary, much branched and lax many-flowered panicles.
Seeds 1(2) oblong; testa thin; cotyledons plano-convex.
Shrubs or trees.
