Bisexual shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, often distichous on lateral branches; stipules present. Flowers in axillary racemes or few-many-flowered fascicles, or solitary. Sepals 5, imbricate. Petals 5, imbricate in bud. Stamens 5, alternate with petals, inserted beneath margin of disc in each sinus; anthers basifixed, latrorse. Disc 5-lobed. Ovary partially immersed in disc, conical, truncate, 5-locular with 4 ovules per locule in 2 pairs one above the other, attached near base of ovary; stigma sessile, with a central depression. Fruit a capsule with a columella. Seeds 1-4 per locule, arillate. Embryo straight.
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