Shrubs, (sometimes rooting adventitiously and suckering). Stems erect or trailing, (branching from base); twigs (terete), puberulent and sparsely sessile-or stipitate-glandular, becoming glabrate, (older twigs without peglike projections). Leaves persistent, alternate; petiole present; blade coriaceous, margins entire; (buds with sessile glands). Inflorescences terminal, corymbiform racemes, 2-15-flowered; perulae absent. Flowers bisexual, radially symmetric; sepals (persistent), 5, nearly distinct; petals 5, connate ca. 1/3-1/2 their lengths, corolla deciduous, campanulate; stamens 10, exserted; anthers not awned, dehiscent by apical pores; ovary 5-locular, (subglobose); stigma capitate. Fruits capsular, (5-valved), subglobose, dehiscence basipetally septicidal. Seeds ca. 50-150, ovoid, not winged, not tailed; testa reticulate. x = 12.
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