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Shrubs or small trees. Leaves often with domatia present as hairy tufts in the nerve axils; stipules green, persistent, sometimes ± connate at the base. Flowers bisexual, subsessile to pedicellate in elongate or corymbose lateral panicles, 5-merous. Calyx-tube ± narrowly ovoid; limb with distinct tubular part. Corolla-tube long, very narrow; lobes overlapping to the left in bud. Stamens inserted at throat; anthers sessile or subsessile, ± exserted. Disk annular. Ovary 1–2-celled; ovules numerous, style slender, with a small stigmatic club bearing 2 stigmatic lips at its apex. Fruit globose to ellipsoid, ± fleshy. Seeds compressed-ellipsoid; testa with concentric striations.