Medium-sized trees. Leaves paripinnate; leaflets 3–7-jugate. Inflorescence a short to very short paniculate thyrse usually borne on a short shoot. Flowers dioecious, actinomorphic. Sepals 4–5(6). Petals 0. Disk small. Stamens (3) 4–7, coiled in bud; staminodes of female flowers anantherous. Ovary 2-locular, loculi 2-ovulate; style short; stigma 2-lobed; pistillode absent in male flowers. Fruit 1-locular (by abortion), ± drupaceous. Seed 1, pendulous from the apex of the loculus; testa provided with stomata; arillode absent.