Trees. Stipules minute, linear, caducous. Leaves 1-foliolate, petiolate, thickened at basal end; petiolules very short, wrinkled. Inflorescences axillary, fascicled short thyrses. Hypanthium obscure or absent. Calyx deeply lobed, lobes 5, narrowly imbricate, deciduous. Corolla lobes 5. Disk distinct, cushion-like, hairy. Stamens 5(-7), all fertile, rarely 1-3 smaller; filaments free; anthers basifixed, uniform, ovoid, dehiscing lengthwise. Ovary stipitate, terete or slightly ellipsoid, slightly hairy, 1-ovuled; style filiform, slightly hairy; stigma obscure. Pods indehiscent, globose, woody, with a softish pulp around the single subglobular seed; endosperm almost filling the seed; embryo minute, conical.
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