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Trees, ± scandent shrubs, woody climbers or shrublets, unarmed, with (in Somalia) or without latex, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves opposite to subopposite or sometimes alternate; stipules free and deciduous or absent. Flowers bisexual or functionally unisexual, in pedunculate or sessile, dichasial to monochasial cymes or clusters. Sepals (4–)5(–6). Petals (4–)5(–6), green or white to yellow or red or brownish. Stamens (2–)3(–4), with filaments ± widened below, free or united with the ovary or gynophore. Disk extrastaminal. Ovary sessile or on gynophore, usually embedded in the disk, (2–)3-celled, with 2–8 ovules in each cell; style simple; stigma 3-lobed or entire. Fruit a drupe, ± fleshy. Seeds 1–20, without arils or wings.