Hypanthium cup-shaped. Petals free at base, fused in middle into tube, distally free and spreading. Stamens 3 long, 2 short, enclosed in corolla tube; filaments longer than glandless anthers; pollen reticulate. Ovary of 3 carpels; style terminal, lacking membranous cup; stigmatic lobes 3, spreading. Cocci 3, each with 3 wings with several prominent transverse veins, connected to central axis along inner margin by strips which split from the axis from the base upwards, the cocci then falling from the strips and left with a linear scar.
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