Large or small trees or shrubs. Leaves paripinnate, shortly petiolate or sub-sessile; leaflets 2–5 pairs, lowest often resembling stipules. Inflorescence a terminal or axillary paniculate or racemoid thyrse. Flowers actinomorphic; sepals 5, almost free; petals 5, each with a short broad scale. Fruit capsular, 3-gonous, 3-locular, loculicidally dehiscent. Seeds 1 per loculus, ellipsoid, with an arillode at the base. DRC: 2 taxa. |
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