Monoecious (rarely dioecious)
shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, stipulate, simple. Flowers small and
axillary. Male flowers in many-flowered clusters, ± sessile: sepals
and petals 5; filaments united in a column, free above.
Female flowers in few-flowered clusters or solitary, sometimes
pedicellate; styles 2. Ovary 2-locular (1-locular by abortion).
Fruit a smooth berry or drupe, with (1-)2 pyrenes,
generally indehiscent. Worldwide: 60 species in the Old World tropics Rwanda: 1 taxon. |
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