Shrubs or trees, often prickly. Leaves alternate, imparipinnate, glandular-punctate. Flowers mostly unequal, in axillary or terminal cymes. Calyx 3-8-lobed or absent. Petals 3-5, occasionally absent. Stamens 3-8, rudimentary in the female flowers. Ovary 1-5-locular; style sublateral, free or united above; stigma capitate. Fruit a schizocarp, subglobose.