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Description
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Probably andromonoecious, unarmed, glabrous, terrestrial, evergreen shrubs or small trees. Stems branched, pachycaulous. Leaves alternate, sessile or short-petiolate, the bases apparently neither clasping nor alate, exstipulate; blades simple, oblanceolate, the margins entire to undulate. Inflorescences axillary, racemose or once forked, the ultimate units umbellules; bracts present; pedicels very short, articulated. Calyx a low rim with 5–6 minute lobes; petals 5–6, valvate, free; stamens 5–6; carpels (4 or) 5–6, ovaries inferior, styles free, the disc depressed and fleshy. Fruits drupes, glabrous, broadly obovoid, terete; endocarps crustaceous. Endosperm uniform.
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