Trees or shrubs with stellate hairs or stellate scales. Flowers medium-sized or large in few-or multi-flowered inflorescences; these more or less strictly opposite the leaves, or sometimes produced from older branches or from the trunk. Sepals valvate. Petals free, generally imbricate in bud. Stamens numerous; connective generally expanded above the anther into a truncate disk. Carpels numerous; ovules solitary, basal, erect. Monocarps sessile, closely crowded, ligneous or fleshy, easily separable or more or less coherent.
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