Dioecious trees. Pith of the branchlets without vascular strands. Leaves without stipules; pith of the petiole without vascular strands. Leaflets entire. Inflorescences axillary, paniculate. Flowers 5-merous; receptacle cupular. Sepals free. Petals free, with slightly thickened apex. Stamens 10, confluent at the base, episepalous ones slightly longer, in female flowers all sterile, though only slightly reduced in size. Disk nearly entirely adnate to the receptacle, intrastaminal. Pistil with a 3-celled, ovary; in male flowers only slightly reduced. Fruits drupaceous, stigmatic scar (nearly) apical; pericarp fleshy; mesocarp consisting of long, radially arranged, pallisadoid cells; pyrene hard and bony, usually 2 cells strongly reduced; calyx persistent, not enlarged. Seed 1; cotyledons contortuplicate, entire, leafy.
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