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Dioecious lianes with tendrils +/- as long as leaves, arising at leaf nodes. Leaves opposite, entire, penninerved. Inflorescences: flowers borne in axillary cymose panicles, rarely terminal umbels. Flowers unisexual, pedicellate, articulated below calyx. Calyx deeply 4- or 5-toothed, sometimes absent. Petals 3-5, +/- united at base. Male flowers with 3-5 stamens alternating with petals; filaments very short, +/- flattened. Female flowers: ovary subsessile, 1-locular, stigma sessile, discoid, sometimes slightly excentric; ovules 2, pendulous. Fruit a drupe, ellipsoid; endocarp woody. Seeds large.