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Trees or shrubs, glabrous. Leaves alternate, entire or dentate to spinose-dentate, petiolate; stipules minute, caducous. Flowers in condensed pedunculate cymes or false umbels or fascicles, sometimes cauliflorous. Sepals (4)5, free, imbricate, deciduous. Petals (4)5, free, imbricate, spreading, deciduous. Stamens (4)5, slightly perigynous, inserted between and united with the disk lobes, with filaments dorsally compressed, slightly dilated near the base; anthers oblong-sagittate, versatile. Disk (4)5-lobed, each lobe bearing 3–4(–6) stiff filaments (staminodes?). Ovary narrowly ovoid-pyramidal, 5–10-angled, completely or incompletely 5(6–7)-locular, with ¥ horizontal ovules in 2 rows; style thick, simple; stigma shallowly 5(6–7)-lobed. Fruit drupaceous, woody, 5(6–7)-locular or eventually 1-locular, each loculus ¥-seeded. Seeds obovoid-oblong, angular, with black testa; embryo as long as seed.