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Ovary superior, 3–5-locular, with each loculus 2-ovulate and often ± subdivided by a false septum; ovules collateral, pendulous; styles completely united, with 5 stigmas, free and radiating or united
Stamens 20, 10 or 5, all fertile; filaments free, inserted on the outer side of an eglandular annulus or cup; anthers dorsifixed, dehiscing longitudinally
Stamens 5–20, inserted on an annular disk or shortly united at base, hypogynous or subperigynous; filaments otherwise free; anthers 2-celled, short
Seeds slightly compressed, shining, almost surrounded by a fleshy aril or winged, with fleshy endosperm; embryo often oblique or lateral
Ovary 5–3-celled; ovules 2 in each cell, pendulous from the central axis; style simple or shortly 5–3-fid
Flowers in axillary cymes or racemes, sometimes paniculate, actinomorphic, bisexual, homostylic
Fruit a capsule dehiscing septicidally (sometimes also partially loculicidally) into 5 valves
Leaves alternate, simple, entire or toothed, pinnately nerved; stipules very small, caducous
Petals 5, contorted in bud, free, not unguiculate, persistent, often becoming indurated
Fruit a capsule, woody or coriaceous, septicidal, the carpels often spuriously septate
Trees, shrubs, or rarely suffrutices, glabrous or with an indumentum of simple hairs
Leaves alternate, simple, penninerved, with small stipules or exstipulate
Petals 5, free, contorted, persistent and indurated in fruit
Flowers hermaphrodite, in axillary fascicles or cymes
Sepals 5, imbricate, free or united at the base
Seeds arillate, with fleshy endosperm
Sepals 5, shortly connate, imbricate
Trees and shrubs
