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Ovary bilobed and bilocular, with axile placentation and 2 or 4 ovules per loculus; style long and slender, stigma capitate.
Inflorescence 1 to many–flowered, cymose; bracts and bracteoles absent; pedicels erect or recurved in fruit.
Fruit a bilocular capsule forming 2 cocci with membranous pericarp; dehiscence usually circumscissile.
Stamens 2, inserted on the corolla tube, usually with relatively long filaments; anthers introrse.
Leaves alternate or opposite, entire or lobed, sessile or petiolate; acarodomatia absent.
Low shrubs or suffrutices, glabrous or hairy, rarely spinose (not in Africa).
Calyx 5–15–lobed, segments entire or divided.
Seeds angular, reticulate; endosperm absent.
