Shrubs or trees, occasionally armed, the branchlets occasionally reduced in length. Leaves with intervenal areas occasionally lineolate; stipules usually per-sistent. Inflorescences cymose, axillary, the peduncle occasionally reduced in length; bracts and bracteoles small, the latter occasionally connate. Flowers tu-bular, the teeth persistent; corolla white or cream colored, the corolla salverform or funnel shaped, usually sericeous outside, the lobes valvate or imbricate; sta-mens generally not exserted, the anthers dorsifixed, sessile, attached near the mouth; ovary 2-celled, each cell with a pendulous ovule. Fruits fleshy, the seeds cylindrical, pendulous.
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