Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Shrubs or rarely trees.

Stems: Stems erect to prostrate.

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Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate or rarely opposite. Blades linear to lanceolate or elliptic. Surfaces glabrous or rarely pubescent, often viscid when young. Margins entire to serrate. Sessile or with a winged petiole. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers axillary and solitary or in small cymes, not subtended by bracts. Flowers bisexual (perfect), usually irregular. Calyx usually deeply (4)5(–9)-lobed, glandular–dotted. Corolla slightly irregular, campanulate to funnelform, usually (4)5(–9)-lobed, glabrous or pubescent within, usually glandular punctate, imbricate. Stamens 4–8, adnate to corolla, equal; filaments hairy [glabrous], staminode 0. Ovary superior, 2-carpellate, 2–5(–12)-celled, placentation apical; ovules 1(2) per cell, pendulous, anatropous; style simple; stigma entire or obscurely 2–5–grooved, rarely 2-lobed.

Fruit: Fruit drupaceous; usually subglobose; sometimes depressed or laterally compressed; endocarp bony. Seeds spindle–shaped.

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