Shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate, petiolate, serrate or crenate, stipulate. Flowers bisexual in axillary, pedunculate cymes. Calyx campanulate with a cupular receptacle and 5 imbricate sepals. Petals 5 inserted on the margin of the disk. Disk cupular, ± adnate to the receptacle. Stamens opposite the petals, inserted on the disk margin. Ovary 1-locular; placentas 2, each with 2 anatropous, pendulous ovules. Fruit dry or somewhat fleshy, 1–4-seeded, apparently indehiscent. Seeds obovoid or ellipsoid; testa smooth or minutely reticulate, endosperm fleshy.