Shrubs, occasionally small trees. Leaves often coriaceous or subcoriaceous, petiolate or sessile; stipules interpetiolar, often with subulate or prickly teeth on the dorsal surface or on the margins, the margins occasionally laciniate. Info-rescence terminal, paniculate, cymose, umbellate or capitate, occasionally 1-flowered. Flowers with the calycine cup obsolete or obvious, the teeth present or absent; corolla salverform or funnelform, the lobes valvate; ovary 2-celled, the ovules connate, attached to a common basal column. Fruits baccate; seeds vertical, commonly only one present in the mature fruit.
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