Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment
Abstract
[Extract] Shrubs or small trees, rarely climbing or herbaceous (non-Australia). Leaves petiolate, alternate, spiral or distichous; lamina entire to crenate/serrulate, usually coriaceous, glabrous or with peltate glandular scales, hairs rare (non-Australian), glands globular and/or lineate. Inflorescence racemose usually appearing umbelliform or paniculate (not in mainland Australia) or cymose (non-Australian). Flowers bisexual, 5-merous, pedicellate; calyx free or fused at the base, persistent; corolla rotate, campanulate to urceolate (not in Australia), fused at base, lobes imbricate in bud; stamens free or adnate to the corolla tube; filaments short, rarely absent, base usually fused; anthers longitudinally dehiscent, rarely opening by pores (not in Australia), erect, often connivent around the style; ovary superior; style filiform, usually more than twice as long as the ovary; stigma punctiform; placenta basal; ovules few to numerous embedded in the placenta, uniseriate to multiseriate, 1 maturing. Fruit a drupe, style persistent or scar present, endocarp hard. Seed 1, endosperm firm, embryo transverse, cylindrical
