Description

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Growth Form: Shrubs erect, canescent.

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Leaves: Leaves simple. Opposite. Base subsessile. Margins entire. Petiolate. Stipules present, possibly only in seedlings.

Flowers: Flowers in cymes extra-axillary or terminal, umbel-like, long pedunculate. Flowers bisexual (perfect), 5-merous, actinomorphic. Calyx 5-parted, joined at base only, with basal glands. Corolla 5-parted, sympetalous, bowl-shaped to subrotate, divided to middle; lobes valvate or overlapping to right. corona lobes 5, adnate to gynostegium, fleshy, laterally compressed, apex with a tubercle on each side, with abaxial, basal, revolute spur. Stamens 5; filaments connate; anther appendages incurved; pollinia 2 per pollinarium, oblong, pendulous. Ovary superior, 2, free; ovules numerous; styles connate, long; stigma head slightly convex, fleshy.

Fruit: Follicles ovoid; subglobose; or oblong–lanceolate; mesocarp inflated. Seeds numerous; strongly compressed; with a coma (a prominent basal tuft of silky hairs).

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