Shrubs or small to medium-sized trees; the pubescence of simple hairs. Flowers medium-sized in few-flowered inflorescences (rhipidia) opposite the leaves or rarely produced from the trunk; pedicels usually long with 2 bracts. Sepals valvate. Petals valvate in bud or a little imbricate at the apex, all rather alike, linear-oblong to lanceolate. Stamens numerous; pollen sacs not locellate; connective expanded above the anther into a truncate disk. Carpels several to numerous with 1-8 lateral ovules. Monocarps stipitate or rarely subsessile, spherical to shortly ovoid-cylindric.
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