Tree or shrub, glabrous in all parts except inside the corolla tube; white latex present in all parts. Leaves opposite. Inflorescence terminal, rarely axillary, a compound umbellate cyme, pedunculate. Flowers fragrant or not. Sepals imbricate, with 2–4 rows of colleters at the extreme base. Corolla tube thick and fleshy, almost cylindrical; lobes overlapping to the left, entire, spreading and later recurved. Stamens included; filaments short. Ovary of two separate carpels, united at the extreme base by a disk-like thickening; ovules numerous in each carpel; pistil head of a stigmatic oblong basal part and a stigmoid apex up to 1.5 mm long. Fruit of two separate mericarps, up to 80-seeded.
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