"ascarina" has separate male and female flowers. the male flowers are subtended by two bracts and have between one and five stamens, in which the connective is not widened. the female flower is without bracts, the stigma is dry and covered in papillae. the fruit is a drupe-like berry. twelve species can be found on islands in the pacific and insular south-east asia, from new zealand and the marquesas to borneo, and on madagascar.