Evergreen trees. Stipules absent. Leaves simple, spirally arranged, petiolate, secondary veins pinnate; margin serrate or entire. Inflorescences axillary, dichasial cymes; bracts lanceolate, caducous. Flowers bisexual, pedicellate; bracteoles 2, caducous, inserted at base of calyx. Sepals 5, persistent, imbricate, scarious. Petals 5, white, basally slightly connate. Stamens (8-)10(-13), in 1 whorl, inserted at base of corolla; filaments short, basally thickened, apically constricted and introrsely flexed; anthers introrse, basifixed, pilose, basally sagittate, apically 2-cleft, dehiscing by apical pores. Ovary superior, conic, glabrous, 3-loculed, apically tapering into an elongated slightly 3-parted style; ovules 2 per locule, pendulous, anatropous. Fruit grayish, long conic to flask-shaped, with 8-10 vertical striations, 3-loculed with 2 seeds per locule. Worldwide: 2 genera. One in East Asia and one in tropical Africa. DRC: 1 genus and 1 taxon. |
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