Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Large shrubs or small trees to 4–7 m tall.

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Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Blades linear, 8–15 mm long, 1.5–3 mm wide. Apex mucronate. Surfaces glabrous, conspicuously glandular–dotted. Margins entire. Short-petiolate. Stipules vestigial or absent.

Flowers: Flowers 1–3, axillary. Flowers bisexual (perfect), actinomorphic. Hypanthium well–developed above ovary. Calyx of 5 sepals, yellowish, deltate, ca. 2–2.5 mm long, apex acute. Corolla of 5 petals, clawed, pale yellow, ca. 5–6 mm long, glandular–dotted externally. Stamens numerous, in a single series; anthers dithecal. Ovary partly inferior, 3–10-celled; ovule placentation axile; style terminal, simple.

Fruit: Capsules woody; loculicidal; usually 5–valved; ca. 6–8 mm in diameter; exserted ca. ½ from hypanthium. Seeds linear.

Ploidy: 2n = 22

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