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Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, the margins entire to serrulate, persistent or deciduous. Flowers solitary or fasciculate in the leaf axils, I, pedicellate, 2-bracteolate, the bracteoles subopposite or alternate, inserted near the apex of the pedicel, soon caducous; sepals 5, unequal, connate at the very base, usually ciliolate along the margins, persistent; petals 5, alternisepalous, connate slightly at the very base; stamens ca 25, 1-seriate, adnate to the base of the corolla, the anthers basi-fixed, setose; ovary superior, 2-3-celled, each cell oo-ovulate, the styles united into one, the stigmas 2-3. Fruits baccate, globose to ovoid, oo-seeded; seeds with thin endosperm, the embryo curved.
