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Shrubs or woody herbs. Flowers 5-merous, surrounded by an involucre of bracts. Calyx tubular-campanulate; lobes persistent. Petals obovate. Stamens 10, usually unequal; anthers linear-subulate; long stamens with arcuate extension of the connective and 2 anterior lobed appendages; short stamens with shorter less arcuate connective and with 2 anterior tubercular appendages; rarely all stamens similar. Ovary adhering to the calyx-tube by 10 septa, 5-locular, with a crown of bristles at the apex. Capsule enclosed in the dry calyx-tube. Seeds minute, cochleate.