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Shrubs to large trees. Leaves odd-pinnate, often crowded toward the branch apex, deciduous, the leaflets alternate or opposite, membranous or subcoriaceous, petiolulate or rarely subsessile. Inflorescences paniculate to racemose or subcapitate, terminal or lateral, large or small. Flowers small, hermaphriditic or less often male or female, pedicellate or sessile; calyx-segment (4)5, small, deciduous, slightly imbricate; petals (4)5, erect to spreading or reflexed, subvalvate in bud; disc intrastaminal, cupular, crenate; stamens (4-)8-10, inserted below the disc; ovary 3-5-locular, the styles 3-5, connivent above but free (rarely united by their stigmas), a distinct stigmatic region apparent or not, the ovules solitary in each locule, apical. Fruit a fleshy drupe, 1-5-locular; seeds with a membranous testa.
Trees, usually deciduous. Leaves spirally arranged, clustered at branchlet tips, large, imparipinnate, with subopposite leaflets, rarely bipinnate or simple (not on Christmas Island); leaflets usually with a distinct intra-marginal vein; petiole much thickened at base. Inflorescence axillary or terminal, often forming a large panicle. Flowers small, actinomorphic, 5-or occasionally 4-merous, bisexual or unisexual. Calyx usually 5-lobed or divided. Petals usually 5, free, reflexed, valvate. Stamens 8 or 10, sometimes staminodal, inserted below disc. Disc annular, deeply 10-lobed, glabrous. Ovary 5-locular, each with 1 ovule. Styles 3–5. Endocarp 1–5-locular, woody, ridged, sometimes with many slender processes. Seeds usually 1–3. A detailed description is provided by Mitchell & Daly (2015: 14–15).
Entirely or partly deciduous trees. Leaves alternate, spirally arranged, petiolate, imparipinnately compound; leaflet margin serrate or entire. Inflorescence paniculate, terminal or axillary. Flowers 4-or 5-merous, bisexual or functionally unisexual. Stamens 8-10; filaments subulate to filiform, equal in length. Disk intrastaminal, 10-crenate to crenulate. Ovary 4-or 5-locular, with 1 ovule per locule; styles 4 or 5, free, or style 1. Fruit drupaceous; mesocarp juicy; endocarp woody or bony, covered by a fibrous matrix; embryo elongate, straight to slightly curved.
