Description

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Growth Form: Small trees or erect shrubs.

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Leaves: Leaves simple or compound (palmate). Alternate. Surfaces red–dotted. Margins entire. Petiolate. Stipules small and caducous, protecting the terminal bud.

Flowers: Flowers in terminal corymbs or panicles. Flowers bisexual (perfect), actinomorphic. Calyx of 5 sepals; sepals alternate with the pedicel glands. Corolla of 5 petals, distinct, imbricate or convolute. Stamens numerous, ± in 2–5 groups, sometimes inserted on nectary disk; anthers dithecal, opening by short slits or pores; horseshoe–shaped, folded so that the terminal pore area is morphologically central; filaments inserted on nectary disk. Ovary superior usually bristly, 1-celled with 2 opposite, intruded, parietal placentas; placentation partly axile or parietal; ovules numerous, anatropous; style 1; stigma 2-lobed.

Fruit: Fruit a loculicidal capsules. capsules compressed at right angles to the placenta; usually soft prickly; rarely smooth. Seeds with oily or starchy endosperm; numerous; obovoid; angled; fleshy and densely studded with small; round; red; sessile glands.

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