Shrubs or trees, often armed. Inflorescences terminal, cymose paniculate, the flowers bracteate. Flowers with the calyx obovoid or turbinate, the calycine cup cupuliform, 4-5-lobed; corolla with the tube funnelform, hairy within, the lobes 4-5; anthers dorsifixed, included or exserted, the filaments short or long; ovarian disc fleshy, the style slender, the stigmas 2, the ovary usually 2-celled, the ovules solitary, pendulous. Fruits of 2 trigonous, indehiscent 1-seeded cocci separating from below upwards from the persistent axis; seeds elongated, cylindrical, the testa thin.
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