Description

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Growth Form: Trees, pubescent with simple hairs.

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Leaves: Leaves compound (even-pinnate). Alternate. Leaflets opposite or alternate. Blades usually coriaceous. Leaflet margins entire, serrate, or dentate. Petiolate. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in axillary, solitary, paniculate, or racemose inflorescences. Flowers bisexual (perfect) or unisexual (and then plants monoecious or polygamomonoecious), actinomorphic or nearly so. Calyx lobes 4–6, valvate or narrowly imbricate. Corolla of 4–5 petals, small, each with a bilobed scale, or absent. Stamens 5–8, exserted; filaments filiform, pubescent. Ovary superior (perfect or pistillate flowers), 1–4-lobed and 1–4-celled, placentation basal; ovules 1 per cell; style short; stigmas 2–4, inconspicuous.

Fruit: Fruit hard; with 1–2 mericarps maturing; pericarp rough; lenticels present; glabrate with age; irregularly dehiscent. Seeds 1 per fruit; globose; sometimes somewhat compressed; glossy on 1 side; with a fleshy; smooth or granular aril.

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