Dioecious trees. Leaves alternate, imparipinnate. Leaflets sub-opposite, entire, sinuate in juveniles. Inflorescence terminal and axillary. Sepals 5, imbricate. Petals 5, imbricate. Male flowers: stamens 10, inserted below margin of disc; anthers dorsifixed, introrse; disc with 10 lobes between filaments, saucer-shaped with a central cavity; pistillode absent. Female flowers: staminodes 10, similar to stamens but smaller; disc shallowly cupular; ovary seated on disc, subglobular, 1-locular with 1 ovule suspended from top of erect basally-attached funicle; styles 3; stigmas depressed-globular or slightly lobed. Fruit a drupe; exocarp chartaceous; mesocarp thick, woody; endocarp bony, compressed. Seed solitary; testa thin, membranous. Endosperm absent; cotyledons free, flat.
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