Trees or shrubs, indument of simple or stellate hairs. Petiole often short to absent. Inflorescences terminal or sometimes leaf-opposed, 1-3-flowered. Pedicel slender, pendent, without bracteoles. Sepals [2 or]3, relatively large, valvate, free, eventually ± reflexed. Petals [4-]6, in [1 or]2 whorls, ± equal, free [or united into cup, sometimes adnate to torus], sometimes imbricate at tips. Torus usually much wider than high, enlarged in fruit. Stamens many; connective depressed-globose, wider than anther locules. Carpels many; ovules (1 or)2(or 3), lateral. Styles oblong, often hairy at apex. Fruit apocarpous; monocarps usually many, each on long stipelike carpophore articulate at apex, usually ± ellipsoid, fleshy. Seeds usually 2, shiny chestnut-brown, ellipsoid or flattened-ellipsoid.
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