Description from Flora of China Shrubs or small tress,
evergreen; branches with 1 prophyll, stellately pubescent or
lepidote when young; buds naked. Leaves distichous (rarely
spiral), shortly petiolate; stipules caducous, leaving small
scars; leaf blade leathery, margin entire or shallowly toothed
towards leaf apex, venation pinnate; lateral veins usually
prominent abaxially. Plants andromonoecious. Inflorescence a
condensed panicle or botryoid, flowers distichously (or rarely
spirally ) arranged, axillary, ± sessile; each flower usually
subtended by two (simple or 3-lobed) subopposite sepal-like
bracteoles, sometimes lacking in male flowers. Flowers male or
bisexual. Floral cup absent. Sepals and petals absent. Male
flowers: stamens 1–8, filaments short, unequal, anthers
ellipsoid, thecae 2-sporangiate, each dehiscing by a
longitudinal slit, connective produced. Bisexual flowers:
stamens 5–8, ovary superior, ovules 1 per locule; stigmas
decurrent. Fruits distichously (or rarely spirally) arranged,
sometimes