Description

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Growth Form: Climbing shrubs or woody lianas.

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

Flowers: Flowers in inflorescences 1– or few–flowered clusters; peduncle recurved, woody, persistent, forming a hook. Flowers bisexual (perfect), often fragrant. Torus flat or concave. Calyx of 3 sepals; sepals hypogynous, valvate, connate at base. Corolla of 6 petals, in 2 whorls; petals hypogynous, pale yellowish, subequal, with each whorl valvate, base concave, apex connivent. Stamens hypogynous, numerous, in several series, outermost series sometimes forming staminodes; filaments very short and thick; anther locules 2, opening by a longitudinal slit; connectives apically dilated, apex truncate. Ovary superior; carpels 4 to many; ovules 2 per carpel, basal; styles thick, short; stigmas ovoid, oblong, or clavate.

Fruit: Fruit apocarpous; monocarps fasciculate; sessile or shortly stipitate; ellipsoid–obovoid or globose; fleshy and berrylike. Seeds 1 or 2 per monocarp; without an aril; endosperm copious; ruminate; embryo minute; near hilum.

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