Shrubs or small trees, deciduous. Leaves simple, entire, stipulate. Flowers large, solitary, terminal on leafy branchlets, bisexual, 5-merous. Hypanthium narrowly campanulate. Epicalyx 0. Sepals 5, imbricate, persistent, becoming reflexed. Petals 5, white or pink, obovate. Stamens 15-25. Stylodia 5, free. Stigmas oblique. Ovary inferior, 5-locular with a central cavity, formed from 5 carpels that are adnate to the hypanthium. Ovules numerous in each locule, biseriate, horizontal, pleurotropous. Fruit a large, aromatic, many-seeded pome with firm flesh containing sclereids; endocarp coriacious. Seeds with mucilaginous testa.

A genus of one species, Cydonia oblonga, native to the Caucasus and Kurdistan, cultivated as a fruit tree (quince) across the globe and sometimes naturalised. Cultivated in Pakistan.