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Trees or shrubs. Leaves yellow-green, glabrous, opposite, petiolate. Inflorescences axillary (usually supra-axillary), consisting of short compact cymes, borne on a stout, flattened peduncle. Calyx tube truncate or with 5 short teeth. Corolla salver-shaped, white, sometimes pink in bud. Ovary 2-locular; ovules 1 per loculus, pendulous from the apex. Fruit subspherical. Worldwide: 16 species in tropical Africa, Madagascar and the Seychelles Malawi: 1 taxon. |
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