Description

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Growth Form: Annual to perennial herbs and shrubs (rhizomatous) to small trees.

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Leaves: Leaves simple. Opposite. Pinnately veined. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers bisexual (perfect), actinomorphic or occasionally slightly irregular. Calyx lobes 5, fused at base, +- equal, alike in shape, persistent, occasionally enlarged in fruit, sinus appendages 0. Corolla deciduous, rotate, funnelform, urceolate, or urceolate-tubular, lobes 5. Stamens 5. Ovary mostly superior, occasionally half-inferior; ovule placentation parietal; styles 2, terminal, branches 2, free to base or fused 3/4 to apex; stigmas generally entire or occasionally lobed; disk subtending ovary generally conspicuous.

Fruit: Capsules loculicidal; ovoid to elliptic.

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