Trees or shrubs, usually completely glabrous. Leaves petiolate to sessile and amplexicaul; lamina margins serrate to ciliate or entire; stipules entire, not striate, coriaceous. Inflorescence paniculate to racemose or umbellate or rarely reduced to 1–2 flowers, terminal or axillary, sometimes at the base of the current year’s growth; bracts scale-like; pedicels articulated at or above the base. Sepals 5, green or yellow in flower, persistent and usually enlarging and becoming varying shades of red and coriaceous in fruit. Petals 5, yellow or rarely white, deciduous. Fruit druplets, 1 to several, free, black or brown, 1-seeded with fleshy or coriaceous mesocarp, inserted on the enlarged red or purplish receptacle. Seeds straight or curved, without endosperm. Zambia: 1 taxon. |
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