Deciduous shrubs, erect or scandent, with axillary thorns. Thorns sometimes leafy. Leaves simple, alternate or fascicled on short shoots, serrulate to entire; stipules minute, caducous. Inflorescences in racemes or 1-flowered. Flowers pedicellate, bisexual, 5-merous. Hypanthium cup-shaped to campanulate, recurved after flowering. Epicalyx absent. Sepals imbricate or valvate, unequal, 3 larger and 2 small, persistent. Petals with claw, yellow or white. Stamens 10-30, in 2 or more whorls inserted on the hypanthium, filaments short. Pistil 1, ovary superior, 1-loculed. Ovules 2, descendent, attached to the ventral wall, style subbasal to lateral, stigma capitate. Fruit a drupe with 1 seed, orbicular with fleshy mesocarp, leathery endocarp. Seed subbasally attached, without endosperm.

A genus of 3-4 species, distributed in Himalayas, China, Mongolia, Taiwan; represented in Pakistan by 1 species.