Shrubs or trees. Leaves imparipinnate; leaflets serrate. Bracts ovate, large; flowers polygamous, male flowers and bisexual flowers on same plant but not in same inflorescence, actinomorphic. Sepals 5, oblong, imbricate. Petals 5, broadly obovate, shortly clawed, scale absent. Disk 5-lobed, lobes alternate to petals, apex with a hornlike appendage abaxially. Stamens 8, not exserted; anthers ellipsoid, apex of connectives and base of cells with 1 globose gland. Ovary ellipsoid, 3-loculed; ovules 7 or 8 per locule, in 2 lines; style terminal, erect; stigma papillate. Capsules subglobose or broadly ellipsoid, 3-ridged, loculicidal into 3 schizocarps, 3-loculed; pericarp thick, rigid, containing fiber bundles. Seeds several per locule, compressed-globose, pericarp thickly leathery, arillode absent; hilum semilunar, large; embryo arched, cotyledons one large and one small. 2n = 30.
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