Description

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Growth Form: Trees or shrubs.

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Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Margins entire. Veins pinnate. Petiolate. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Inflorescences axillary, internodal, or leaf-opposed, sessile or shortly pedunculate, 1- to many flowered. Flowers usually bisexual. Sepals 3, usually small, valvate or rarely subimbricate in bud, free. Petals 6, in 2 whorls, free, valvate or rarely subimbricate in bud, subequal, flat and spreading; inner petals sometimes slightly larger or smaller than outer, concave and arched over stamens. Stamens usually many; anther locules cuneate; connectives apically orbicular or rhomboidal, concealing anther locules, apex flat-topped or slightly convex. Ovary superior, carpels rather few to many, free; ovules 1 or 2(or 3) per carpel, basal or sutural; styles absent, very short, or long; stigmas mostly dilated.

Fruit: Fruit apocarpous; monocarps few to many; short to long stipitate; mostly globose or ovoid; fleshy. Seeds 1 or 2(or 3) per monocarp; with a longitudinal circumferential groove.

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