Small trees, monoecious, evergreen, perennial; stems and foliage without latex. Indumentum of simple, multicellular trichomes, glandular trichomes absent, stinging trichomes absent. Stipules entire, large and conspicuous, deciduous. Leaves opposite, petiolate, elobate, penninerved, crenate, eglandular. Inflorescences axillary, racemose, solitary, uni-or bisexual; flowers in bracteate clusters. Male flowers pedicellate; sepals imbricate, 2+2; petals absent; disc absent; stamens 12–15, filaments free and attached to a convex receptacle; anthers dorsifixed, bilobate, thecae oblong and longitudinally dehiscent; pistillodes absent. Female flowers pedicellate; sepals imbricate, 3; petals absent; disc absent; ovary 3-locular, ovules biloculate; styles 3, free, entire. Fruit capsular, trilobate, surface smooth, dehiscing septicidally into 3 bivalved cocci. Seeds globose; testa crustaceous; albumen fleshy; caruncle entire, non-arilloid; cotyledons broad, flat.
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