Description

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Growth Form: Trees, monoecious or dioecious; indumentum of simple or T-shaped hairs, often sparse.

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Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Margins entire. Palmately veined. Petioles long, with 2 adaxial glands at apex. Stipules caducous.

Flowers: Inflorescence terminal, much branched, thyrsoid, cymules of bisexual inflorescences each with several male flowers and a terminal female flower; bracts inconspicuous. Male flowers: buds ovoid or subglobose; calyx ± spatheate, ± regularly 2- or 3-lobed; petals 5, white or reddish white to purple, base clawed; disk segments 5, subulate; stamens 8-12, in 2 series; outer filaments free, inner ones longer and connate at base. Female flowers: sepals and petals as in male; disk obscure or absent; ovary densely pubescent, 3(-8)-locular; ovules 1 per locule; styles 3-5, bifid.

Fruit: Drupes large; subglobose; beaked at apex; indehiscent or slightly dehiscent at base; 3-seeded; exocarp crustaceous. Seeds without caruncle; seed coat woody.

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