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Male flowers: perianth 4–6-lobed; lobes rounded to ovate or lanceolate; stamens free, anthers dehiscing longitudinally; rudimentary ovary absent.
Inflorescences axillary, solitary or paired racemes or panicles, yellowish-or greyish-tomentose; bracts ovate to triangular.
Female flowers: perianth 3–5-lobed; staminodes absent; ovary of 1 carpel; ovules solitary, pendulous, anatropous.
Fruit fleshy, ovoid or ellipsoid, crowned by the persistent stigma.
Small trees or shrubs, glabrous except for the inflorescence.
Leaves opposite or subopposite.
Seeds compressed-ellipsoidal.
Flowers very small.
