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Trees, shrubs and lianes. Latex present. Spines and tendrils absent. Stipules absent. Stems and leaves completely glabrous. Inflorescences cymose, terminal, rarely also axillary; pedicels present, up to 1 cm. long. Calyx glabrous; lobes free to base, herbaceous, imbricate, not revolute; scales present, covering part of the ventral surface of sepals; corolla hypocrateriform, externally glabrous, internally hairy above and below stamens; tube not developing splits (as in Pleiocarpa); lobes contorted, overlapping to the left, not ciliate. Ovary glabrous, 2-carpellate, apocarpous, with 2-30 ovules per carpel. Fruit a compound berry; mericarps not beaked; seeds with smooth testa; endosperm horny. Worldwide: 13 species in tropical Africa, India and Southeast Asia. Angola: 1 taxon. |
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