Shrubs or small to medium-sized trees. Inflorescences axillary or sometimes produced from older branches or from the trunk; pedicels articulate above the basal bract and provided with a second bract above the articulation. Flowers small, the buds spherical. Sepals minute, valvate. Petals rigid, valvate, ovate or rotund, con-cave, the inner thick in particular; pollen sacs not locellate; connective expanded above the anther into a truncate disk. Carpels several to numerous; ovules (up to 6-8), lateral, or else solitary and attached near the lower or upper end of the ovary. Monocarps free, stipitate.
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