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Ovary superior, sessile, almost free or up to c. 1/3-immersed in the disk, 2-locular, with 2 erect collateral ovules in each loculus; style ± elongated, cylindric, simple; stigma 2-branched.
Inflorescence pedunculate, dichasial, few-flowered, ± condensed, simple or borne on specialised shoots forming “panicles”, in axil of foliage leaves; bracts persistent.
Stamens 5, with filaments thin, united with base of disk; anthers versatile, introrse, with separate thecae dehiscing longitudinally.
Shrubs, scrambling or climbing, without latex, glabrous; branches terete or flattened or quadrangular.
Petals 5, cream or greenish-yellow to yellow, usually drying reddish, imbricate in bud, erect.
Disk intrastaminal, single, ± deeply concave, thick to thin, not or scarcely lobed.
Sepals 5, imbricate, free, with margin reddish-glandular-fringed.
Seeds 2–3(4), exarillate, with endosperm.
Flowers bisexual, sessile.
Fruit baccate, fleshy.