Bisexual glabrous shrubs. Leaves reduced to opposite or subopposite decussate cataphylls; stipules absent. Inflorescence of 1-or few-flowered glomerules in axils of cataphylls; flowers on short pedicels with bracteoles at base. Sepals 5, imbricate, red-brown or black towards apex. Petals 5, imbricate. Stamens 5; anthers longitudinally dehiscent, introrse. Disc ±flat, pentagonal. Ovary scarcely or partially immersed in disc, 2-or 3-locular with 2 ±erect, basally attached ovules per locule; stigma obscurely 2-or 3-lobed. Fruit a capsule, 2-or 3-locular. Seeds 1 or 2, erect, with a fleshy aril at base; testa longitudinally striate, dark red-brown. Endosperm sparse.
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