Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite or ternate, often drying black; stipules interpetiolar, free or connate, persistent. Inflorescences terminal or subterminal, cymose corymbose or capitate, the cymes often 1 sided. Flowers with the hy-panthium obovoid or cylindrical turbinate, the calycine cup short, the teeth 5-6, reduced, persistent in the fruit; corolla large funnelform or hypocrateriform, usu-ally hairy at the mouth, the lobes 5, contorted in bud; stamens exserted, the anthers dorsifixed, acuminate at the apex, the filaments very short, attached at the corolla mouth; ovary 2-celled, the ovules numerous, the placenta axile. Fruits baccoid, oblong or ovoid, the pericarp thick, the seeds numerous horizontal and embedded in a pulp, compressed, the testa foveolate.
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