Description

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Growth Form: Trees, shrubs, or rarely lianas, with milky sap.

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Leaves: Leaves simple. Spirally arranged. Surfaces often coriaceous and lustrous. Margins entire. Petiolate or sessile. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in axillary or terminal cymes or racemes. Flowers bisexual (perfect). Calyx 5-lobed, bearing squamelle within. Corolla 5-lobed, white, cream-orange to pinkish yellow, salverform to funnelform, the mouth closed by 5 appendages, attached above and opposite the stamens. Stamens 5, not exserted. Ovary superior; 2-lobed, 2-celled; ovules 2 per cell.

Fruit: Fruit drupaceous; rhomboid. Seeds 2–4 per fruit.

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