Trees, monoecious. Leaves alternate and distichous; stipules semi-amplexicaul, free; blade entire, pinnately veined. Inflorescences in the leaf axils, bisexual, pedunculate, receptacle cylindrical to turbinate, bracteate. Staminate flowers a few to many, superficial, on the upper part of the receptacle; perianth 3-lobed to 3-parted; stamens 3; pistillode present. Pistillate flower 1, central, embedded in the receptacle; ovary adnate to the perianth; stigmas 2, filiform. Fruit forming a drupaceous whole with the perianth and the enlarged, fleshy, yellowish receptacle; seed large, without endosperm, cotyledons thick, equal or unequal.
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