Flora of New Zealand Series

Small trees. Lvs opposite. Fls ⚥, sessile in capitate heads with 4-(6), large, petaloid bracts; calyces connate into a mass; petals 4; stamens 4; ovary 2-locular. Drupes 2-seeded, united into a fleshy areolate-tuberculate syncarp.

12 spp., Himalaya, E. Asia. Naturalised sp. 1.