Style longer than the stamens; ovary adnate by septa to the inferior half of the receptacle, 5-locular, with multiovulate placentas.
Receptacle obovoid, shallowly undulate at margin, covered with very small brown hairs.
Inflorescences of terminal and axillary paniculate cymes.
Leaves opposite, sometimes aniso-phyllous, petiolate.
Shrubs, undershrubs or perennial herbs.
Fruit capsular, dehiscing irregularly.
Petals broadly ovate, ± oblique.
Seeds 8, curved.
Flower 5-merous.
Sepals 0.