Trees, shrubs or herbs, sometimes scandent. Leaves opposite, simple, with or without stipules. Inflorescences cymose, terminal or axillary, simple or compound, the cymes sometimes reduced to solitary flowers; flower regular. Calyx small, inferior, 4 or 5-toothed. Corolla 4 or 5-lobed, with short to long tubes. Stamens 4 or 5, inserted on corolla tube and alternating with the lobes; anthers 2-celled. Ovary free, 2-celled; style simple, the stigma capitate or bifid; ovules one or more in each cell, placentation axile. Fruit a septicidal capsule or indehiscent berry, 1- to many-seeded. Seeds with abundant endosperm.
A large tropical and subtropical family with about 29 genera and nearly 500 species. Six genera in Taiwan.
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