Shrubs or small trees, polygamous. Leaf blade 3(or 5)-foliolate; leaflet margin serrate or entire. Inflorescence terminal, paniculate; floral subtending bracts persistent. Flowers functionally unisexual or bisexual, 4- or 5-merous. Ovary 1-locular and 1-ovulate, compressed, glabrous. Drupe exocarp thinly membranous, glabrous, finally separating from mesocarp; mesocarp red, glutinous, united with endocarp.

One species: Bhutan, China, NE India, N Myanmar.