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Trees, shrubs or soboliferous dwarf shrubs, glabrous, forming a yellow pigment in the bark. Leaves shortly petiolate, with primary lateral nerves curving upwards, almost parallel to margin, margin closely serrulate with gland-tipped teeth; petioles short; stipules deeply divided into subulate segments, persistent at least on first-year shoots. Flowers variously arranged, usually in axillary fascicles or reduced to 1 flower; bracts resembling stipules. Sepals (4)5, imbricate in bud, white or pink in flower, enlarging and becoming red and coriaceous in fruit. Petals (4)5, white or pale pink, fugaceous. Stamens 10-20, free; filaments persistent, slender, +/- as long as anthers; anthers opening by longitudinal slits, caducous. Carpels 5-10, 1-ovulate, attached basally to receptacle; style entire; stigma capitate. Drupelets globose, shiny-black, attached basally to the red swollen torus. Seeds without endosperm, embryo curved around an internal projection of the endocarp.