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Seeds small, angular with thick testa and fleshy albumen; testa cells ± oblong with few large perforations in the lumen and slightly thickened walls with bead-like extra thickenings at intervals.
Ovary (2)3–5-locular; ovules numerous on long linear placentas; style filiform, glabrous, divided into 2–5 linear stigmatic lobes, included or shortly exserted.
Corolla narrowly tubular funnel-shaped, pubescent at the throat; lobes short, valvate; limited heterostyly occurs.
Calyx tube oblong or obconic; limb-tube tubular with 5 erect lanceolate lobes with minute intercalary lobes.
Erect woody herbs or shrubs, the stems sparsely branched and ultimate stems robust and unbranched.
Anthers ± sessile, inserted below the throat, linear-oblong, included, apiculate; pollen 4-porate.
Leaves large, elliptic; stipules conspicuous, leafy, deciduous.
Fruits subglobose or obovoid, fleshy, many-seeded.
