Tree, probably monoecious. Leaves crenate, slightly fleshy. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, cymes or panicles, of few (female) or many (male) flowers. Male flowers globose to clavate; tepals 4 around a small ostiole; stamens numerous, scattered on lower and side walls of receptacle; anthers deltoid, dehiscing by a single apical slit curving over the stamen apex; connective not prolonged into an appendage; filaments very short, glabrous, the anthers ±sessile. Female flowers poorly known, calyptrate at maturity, apparently without a hyperstigma; carpels relatively few, the ovary glabrous. Upper part of fruiting receptacle falling off forming a circular scar. Fruit a cluster of stipitate drupes.
Shrubs or trees with opposite or verticillate, entire or serrate leaves. Male receptacle ± globose with small tepals surrounding an ostiole; stamens up to c. 30 irregularly spaced over the receptacle; anthers with a single horizontal or horseshoe-shaped slit. Female receptacle ± globose with tepals surrounding a small ostiole, thickened glands within the ostiole; carpels numerous (up to c. 100), sessile on the lower half of the receptacle, style subulate; upper half of the receptacle becoming detached by a circular scar. Drupes sessile or shortly stipi-tate.