Shrubs, (rhizomatous). Stems erect to sprawling or procumbent; twigs rough, with simple, long-stipitate, glandular or eglandular hairs, with or without unicellular hairs, (older twigs without peglike projections). Leaves persistent or deciduous, alternate; petiole absent or nearly so; blade membranous to chartaceous, margins entire or obscurely serrulate, fringed with eglandular or glandular hairs; (venation brochidodromous, reticulum clear). Inflorescences terminal, reduced racemes, (each flower in bract axil); perulae green, leaflike proximally. Flowers bisexual, bilaterally symmetric; sepals 5, slightly connate; petals 5, connate ca. 1/3 their lengths, corolla deciduous, ± rotate; stamens 10, included, (unequal); anthers without awns, dehiscent by terminal pores; ovary 5-locular; style inserted in slight depression at ovary apex, (curved, long, slender); stigma capitate. Fruits capsular, ovoid, dehiscence basipetally septicidal. Seeds ca. 50-100, (brown), ± ellipsoidal, without appendages; testa smooth. x = 12.
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