Trees or shrubs. Leaves simple, alternate, rarely subopposite or subverticillate, usually glandular-serrate; stipules usually absent or minute. Flowers hermaphrodite or less often dioecious or polygamous, mostly in terminal or axillary racemes, panicles, or cymes; in one genus epiphyllous. Sepals 4–5, mostly united at the base or rarely free, imbricate or valvate, often persistent. Petals 4–5, free or rarely connate into a short tube, imbricate or valvate. Disk annular or with lobes alternating with the stamens. Stamens (4–)5(–6), sometimes alternating with staminodes, perigynous, free; anthers 2-celled, opening by longitudinal slits. Ovary superior or inferior, syncarpous or apocarpous, 1–6-locular; ovules with axile or parietal placentation; ovules numerous; styles 1–6, free or ± joined. Fruit a capsule or berry. Seeds few to many, with small or large embryo and copious endosperm
Ovary superior or inferior, syncarpous or apocarpous, 1-6-locular; ovules with axile or parietal placentation; ovules numerous; styles 1-6, free or ± joined
Flowers hermaphrodite or less often dioecious or polygamous, mostly in terminal or axillary racemes, panicles, or cymes; in one genus epiphyllous
Leaves simple, alternate, rarely subopposite or subverticillate, usually glandular-serrate; stipules usually absent or minute
Stamens (4)5(6), sometimes alternating with staminodes, perigynous, free; anthers 2-celled, opening by longitudinal slits
Sepals 4-5, mostly united at the base or rarely free, imbricate or valvate, often persistent
Petals 4-5, free or rarely connate into a short tube, imbricate or valvate
Seeds few to many, with small or large embryo and copious endosperm
Disk annular or with lobes alternating with the stamens
Fruit a capsule or berry
Trees or shrubs