Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 34 (1753).

Derivation: Medieval Latin olax, ill-smelling; the wood of some Asiatic species has an unpleasant odor.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Trees or shrubs with small alternate entire leaves.

calyx cup-shaped, small in flower but much larger later so as to enclose the fruit loosely; petals 5 or 6, valvate in bud; fertile stamens 3 with 3 staminodes alternate to them, entire or 2-lobed; ovary superior, 1-celled, or 3-celled at the base; stigma entire or shortly 3-lobed, with 3 anatropous ovules hanging from the free central placenta.

Drupe enclosed in the swollen calyx but free from it.

Distribution:  About 55 species in the Old World tropics and Australia. 11 species, all endemic to Australia.

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available