Shrubs. Branchlets terete, <scabrous>. Leaves persistent, alternate, <crowded>; stipules present; petiole essentially absent; blade margins entire; 1-veined. Inflorescences terminal, cymose panicles or racemes. Flowers bisexual, radially symmetric; perianth and androecium perigynous; hypanthium free from ovary; sepals 5, distinct; petals 5, white; nectary intrastaminal, usually lining hypanthium, fleshy; stamens 5, adnate to nectary margin; staminodes 0; pistil 5-carpellate; ovary superior, 5-locular, placentation axile; style 1; stigmas 5; ovules 2 per locule. Fruits nutlike (small, hard-walled, indehiscent), 1-locular, oblong to cylindric, apex beaked. Seeds 1 per fruit, oblong, not winged; aril absent.
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