Shrubs. Stems erect, ascending or spreading; twigs hairy, lepidote. Leaves persistent; blade usually oblong to elliptic, rarely obovate, coriaceous, margins entire or denticulate-crenulate, plane, abaxial surface glabrous, silvery, stramineous or brownish lepidote-scaled (splitting in age); venation reticulodromous. Inflorescences terminal, (leafy) racemes, (flowers secund), 8-20-flowered, (from buds produced in previous season). Flowers: sepals 5, distinct, ovate to broadly triangular; petals 5, connate ca. 3/4 their lengths, white, corolla cylindric to urceolate-cylindric, slightly narrowed at throat, lobes much shorter than tube, (glabrous); stamens 10, included; filaments ± straight, flattened, subulate, abruptly narrowed at base, papillate, glabrous, without spurs; anther with 2 awns (awns erect, tubular, as long as body), dehiscent by terminal or subterminal pore; pistil 5-carpellate; ovary 5-locular; (style enlarged just distal to ovary); stigma slightly expanded, truncate. Fruits capsular, depressed-globose, dry-dehiscent, (with unthickened sutures). Seeds 35-50, wedge-shaped, flattened, (without wings); testa reticulate, (cells isodiametric). x = 11.
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Fls 5-merous; cal deeply parted, persistent, closely subtended by 2 bractlets, the lobes imbricate; cor nearly cylindric, slightly narrowed at the throat; stamens 10, included; filaments flat; anthers oblong, each of the 2 pollen-sacs prolonged into an erect tube as long as the body and opening by a terminal or subterminal pore; ovary 5-locular, subtended by a 10-lobed disk; style elongate; stigma truncate; capsule depressed-globose, loculicidal; evergreen shrub with alternate lvs and numerous nodding, axillary fls forming a leafy raceme; stem and lower lf-surface and cal brown-lepidote. (Cassandra) Monospecific.
Shrubs evergreen, lepidote. Stems arching. Leaf blade leathery, margin entire or inconspicuously denticulate. Inflorescences terminal, secund racemes; bracts leaflike. Flowers 5-merous. Corolla urceolate to tubular. Stamens included; filaments straight, subulate, lacking appendages, anthers dehiscing by terminal pores. Ovary superior, with many ovules per locule; stigma truncate. Capsule loculicidal; epicarp 5-valved, separating from 10-valved endocarp. Seeds many, small, wingless.
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