The World Flora Online

Seeds numerous, erect, imbricate, obcuneate, winged, the wing thickened. Capsule subglobose, ± enclosed in the calyx-tube, becoming almost 1 -locular, dehiscing by a transverse slit at the middle (circumscissile). Ovary globose, shortly stipitate, 3-locular; style short or elongate; stigma 2-lobed; ovules numerous, erect. Stamens 12–18, 2- or 1-seriately inserted a little below the middle of the calyx-tube, subequal or alternately unequal; filaments filiform; anthers broadly elliptic. Shrublets, shrubs or small trees, silky-pilose, with the young branches sub-angular, the older ones terete. Flowers axillary, solitary, rarely geminate, pedicellate, the pedicels 2-bracteolate at the base, the bracteoles very soon caducous. Leaves decussate, oblong-lanceolate, entire. Petals 6, obovate, corrugated. Calyx turbinate-campanulate, coriaceous, with the lobes widely 3-angular and the appendages ± short, horn-shaped. Flowers 6-merous, regular. Capsule subglobose, ± enclosed in the calyx-tube, becoming almost 1 -locular, dehiscing by a transverse slit at the middle (circumscissile). Ovary globose, shortly stipitate, 3-locular; style short or elongate; stigma 2-lobed; ovules numerous, erect. Stamens 12–18, 2- or 1-seriately inserted a little below the middle of the calyx-tube, subequal or alternately unequal; filaments filiform; anthers broadly elliptic. Shrublets, shrubs or small trees, silky-pilose, with the young branches sub-angular, the older ones terete. Flowers axillary, solitary, rarely geminate, pedicellate, the pedicels 2-bracteolate at the base, the bracteoles very soon caducous. Leaves decussate, oblong-lanceolate, entire. Petals 6, obovate, corrugated. Calyx turbinate-campanulate, coriaceous, with the lobes widely 3-angular and the appendages ± short, horn-shaped. Flowers 6-merous, regular.

Shrubs to densely branched, small trees, maritime; all parts densely covered by grayish silky trichomes. Leaves opposite, sessile or subsessile. Flowers axillary, solitary or paired, 6-merous, actinomorphic, distylous. Floral tube turbinate, 12-ribbed; sepals short; epicalyx segments present, ca. 1/2 as long as or equaling sepals. Petals white or pale pink. Stamens 12, scarcely biseriate, inserted somewhat above base of floral tube, 6 exserted in short-styled flowers, all included in long-styled flowers. Ovary vestigially 3- or 4-locular, appearing 1-loculed with free, central placentation. Capsule dry, circumscissile, slightly exserted at maturity. Seeds irregularly obpyramidal, wingless.

Seeds numerous, erect, imbricate, obcuneate with thickened wing. Ovary subsessile, globose, 3-locular; style short or elongate, stigma 2-lobed; ovules numerous Capsule subglobose, ± included in the corolla-tube, ultimately almost 1-locular, circumscissile Petals obovate, corrugated Stamens 12, inserted a little below the middle of the calyx-tube, ± equal or longer and shorter alternating Flowers 6-merous, regular, solitary or rarely paired in the upper axils; pedicels with 2 very deciduous basal bracteoles Calyx turbinate-campanulate, ± coriaceous, 12-ribbed; lobes broadly triangular, alternating with short horn-like appendages Shrublets, shrubs or small trees with silvery-silky indumentum Leaves ± fleshy, almost sessile, narrowed to the base Ovary subsessile, globose, 3-locular; style short or elongate, stigma 2-lobed; ovules numerous Capsule subglobose, ± included in the corolla-tube, ultimately almost 1-locular, circumscissile Petals obovate, corrugated Stamens 12, inserted a little below the middle of the calyx-tube, ± equal or longer and shorter alternating Flowers 6-merous, regular, solitary or rarely paired in the upper axils; pedicels with 2 very deciduous basal bracteoles Calyx turbinate-campanulate, ± coriaceous, 12-ribbed; lobes broadly triangular, alternating with short horn-like appendages Shrublets, shrubs or small trees with silvery-silky indumentum Leaves ± fleshy, almost sessile, narrowed to the base