Caloncoba Gilg

Shrubs or trees. Leaves persistent or deciduous, alternate, entire to undulate, petiolate, glabrous or glandular-punctate, quite often glutinous when young; stipules ± caducous. Flowers rather large, in abbreviated racemes, or in fascicles, or solitary, axillary or from old branches or from the trunk, bisexual and ♂ in the same specimen, sometimes appearing before the leaves. Sepals 3, imbricate, concave. Petals 8–13, ± twice as large as the sepals, obovate or oblanceolate, ± clawed, thin, white, scented. Stamens very numerous; filaments filiform; anthers linear-subsagittate, dehiscing by apical pores or ± elongate longitudinal slits. Ovary 1-locular, with 5–8 multi-ovulate placentas; style simple, distally truncate-subcapitate or divided into 5–8 short stigmatic lobes or branches. Fruit an echinate or smooth, dehiscent ovoid-subglobose to slightly obovoid capsule splitting into 5–8 valves, many-seeded, the seeds generally embedded in a fleshy or gelatinous pulp.