Calyx ± truncate to shallowly 4-or 5-lobed. Petals (4) 5, free, imbricate. Staminal tube margin with 5 or 10 short lobes; anthers glabrous. Disk free, margin coarsely toothed. Ovary slightly sunken in receptacle, 4-or 5-locular, locules each with 2 colla-teral ovules. Drupe 1–5-locular, pyrenes 1-(or 2-)seeded; outer mesocarp rather dry-fleshy or soft and fibrous, inner mesocarp fleshy or spongy-fibrous; endocarp thin, cartilaginous. Seeds kidney-shaped, laterally compressed with thin sarcotesta; radicle apical, extending to surface or slightly exserted. Germination phanerocotylar; eophylls trifoliolate, opposite.
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