Trees or shrubs with indumentum of simple, glandular or stellate hairs. Leaves simple or 1-foliolate (rarely pinnatisect or pinnate in juveniles), entire to serrate, sometimes lobed at base, alternate, opposite, spirally arranged or whorled, petiolate; stipules present, minute, linear or triangular, caducous or persistent, or absent and sometimes replaced by colleters. Inflorescence cymose, paniculate, racemose, or fasciculate, or flowers solitary, axillary or terminal. Flowers actinomorphic, bisexual or rarely unisexual (not in Australia), pendant. Sepals 3 or 4, free or fused (not in Australia), valvate, rarely imbricate. Petals 3 or 4 or absent (Sloanea), free or rarely fused (not in Australia), valvate or imbricate, petaloid or resembling the sepals, entire, toothed, laciniate or lobed and often fimbriate. Stamens free, 4–300, outer whorl of staminodes sometimes present (Sloanea); anthers tetrasporangiate, basifixed, dehiscing by 1 or 2 initially terminal pores or slits, with connective sometimes extended into an awn. Ovary superior, 2–9-locular; ovules 1–30 per loculus; placentation axile; style simple or split into style arms or stylodia that are completely free (not in Australia) or free only at base (Peripentadenia); nectary disc present or not. Fruit a drupe, berry or a capsule dehiscing loculicidally or septicidally. Seeds 1-several, sometimes with a sarcotesta or aril, with endosperm.
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Trees or shrubs, evergreen or semi-evergreen. Leaves alternate or rarely opposite, stipulate or not, petiolate, simple, pinnately veined. Inflorescence axillary or terminal, racemose, corymbose, paniculate, or sometimes fascicled or solitary flowers. Flowers bisexual or polygamous, 4-or 5-merous, actinomorphic, with or without bracts. Sepals 4 or 5, basally connate or free, usually valvate. Petals 4 or 5, sometimes absent, valvate or imbricate, margin laciniate or rarely entire. Stamens 8 to numerous; filaments free and borne on disks; anthers 2-celled, dehiscent by apical or longitudinal slits, awned or tipped with hairs at apices. Disk circular or glandularly lobed. Ovary superior, 2-to several loculed; placentation axile; ovules 2 to several per locule; style connate or free. Fruit a drupe or capsule. Seeds with copious endosperm; embryo flat.
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