Hexalobus A.Dc.

Erect shrubs or trees, the indumentum composed of simple hairs. Flowers hermaphrodite, solitary or few in clusters, axillary, sessile or shortly pedicellate; buds ovoid-conic; bracteoles 2–several, biseriate, deciduous. Sepals 3, valvate, free, enclosing the petals in bud, densely pubescent with brown hairs. Petals 6, slightly imbricate, in 2 whorls of 3, equal or subequal,joined at the base into a cup, transversely folded in the bud. Stamens numerous, linear or obconic; filaments short; anther-cells extrorse; prolongation of the connective capitate. Carpels (1–)3–12, free, with numerous biseriate ovules; style very short; stigma bilobed with short clavate lobes. Monocarps indehiscent, obovoid, cylindrical or ellipsoid, subsessile, several-seeded, not or slightly constricted between the seeds, rather fleshy. Seeds horizontal, without an aril.