Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Shrubs or small trees.

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Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Margins entire. 1–3-veined or veins obscure. Petiolate or sessile. Stipules vestigial or absent.

Flowers: Flowers 1–3, axillary, sessile or subsessile. Flowers bisexual (perfect), actinomorphic. Hypanthium well–developed above ovary. Calyx of 5 sepals. Corolla of 5 petals, clawed. Stamens numerous, in a single series; anthers dithecal. Ovary partly inferior, (1)2–12(–16)-carpellate,3–10-celled, placentation axile; ovules few to numerous per cell.

Fruit: Fruit a woody loculicidal capsules. Seeds numerous; obovoid to irregular-linear; flattened; 1–2.5 mm; seed coat reticulate or striate.

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