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Prostrate shrublets to tall trees. Lvs alternate, often simple and entire, otherwise toothed, lobed, 1-2-pinnatifid or pinnate, sometimes spine-tipped. Fls in axillary or terminal, elongated or reduced and umbel-like racemes, ☿, pedicellate; bracts usually caducous. Perianth usually somewhat irregular; tube usually revolute and curved under limb, sometimes straight; limb usually globular with segments soon becoming revolute. Anthers sessile in the concave perianth segments. Nectary usually semi-circular, sometimes 2-lobed or ± annular or 0. Ovary usually stipitate, rarely sessile, glabrous; ovules 2. Style persistent, usually ± = perianth, curved and protruding from slit on lower side of perianth tube before apex is free from limb, straightening out at anthesis; apex ± dilated, forming an oblique disc or an erect or lateral cone; stigma small. Fr. a coriaceous or rarely woody follicle, with inner faces of valves concave. Seeds 1-2, with narrow and ± annular wing or wingless.
Shrubs or (in Flora area) trees. Leaves simple or (more commonly in Flora area) pinnately to bipinnately divided. Flowers in short or long simple or branched racemes; bracts caducous. Perianth tubular, expanded distally into a limb enclosing the stamens, the tube splitting on one side to release the style. Fruit a dehiscent follicle; seeds 2.
Perianth tubular, expanded distally into a limb enclosing the stamens, the tube splitting on one side to release the style.
Leaves simple or (more commonly in the Flora area) pinnately to bi-pinnately divided.
Flowers in short or long simple or branched racemes; bracts caducous.
Shrubs or (in the Flora Zambesiaca area) trees.
Fruit a dehiscent follicle; seeds 2.
