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Trees, with an indumentum of simple hairs. Leaves unifoliolate to pinnate; leaflets alternate or opposite, petiolulate. Flowers bisexual, in axillary spikes or panicles. Calyx deeply 3 - 5-lobed; lobes rounded, imbricate. Petals 5, concave, connivent, imbricate. Disk asent. Staminal tube globose, cyathiform or ovoid with undulate or lobed margin; anthers 10, in 2 whorls of 5 each, glabrous, the upper partly exserted, the lower alternating with anthers of upper whorl and completely included, apiculate. ovary usually 5-locular; 1- or 2-ovuled; style short; stigma obscurely 3 - 5-lobed. Fruit a 1- or 2-seeded berry; seeds exarillate with a sarcotesta.

Indo-Malesian region with ca 7 species; one in India.




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