General description:- Usually dioecious herbs or trees.

Leaves:- Alternate, exstipulate.

Flowers:- Actinomorphic. Male flowers with 4-9 calyx-lobes; petals usually absent; stamens 4-25. Female and hermaphrodite flowers with 3-8 calyx-lobes; petals usually absent; ovary unilocular, inferior; placentation parietal; ovules numerous, anatropous.

Fruit:- A membranous or coriaceous capsule, dehiscing between the styles.

DATISCA

General description:- Herbs with 3-sect or imparipinnate leaves.

Flowers:- Petals absent. Stamens with long anthers and short filaments. Styles 3, bifid.