Shrub or small tree; indumentum sparse, of simple hairs; foliage ± glossy and glabrescent. Flowers hermaphrodite, solitary or in few-flowered cymes, extra-axillary; bracteoles present. Sepals 3, valvate, entirely covering petals only in very young buds. Petals in 2 whorls of 3, open at the base in bud, very slightly imbricate at apex or the outer valvate. Stamens very numerous, forming a hemispherical mass, oblong; anther-cells lateral, very distinctly locellate when dry; connective-prolongation covering the anther-cells, irregularly shaped in plan view, truncate, puberulous; filaments short but distinct. Carpels numerous, columnar, longitudinally ribbed, hairy particularly on the ribs, with 4–6 uniseriate ovules; style oblong, rounded at the apex, consisting of a flat plate with the ends folded in, thus appearing deeply grooved on one side. Monocarps ultimately dehiscent on drying, subcylindrical, but tapering towards the apex, straight, subsessile, 1–6-seeded, not markedly constricted between the seeds. Seeds slightly oblique, overlapping each other at the ends, ellipsoid-cylindrical, flattened at one or both ends where they overlap, with a conspicuous apical aril made up of fibres.
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