Trees, usually deciduous. Leaves simple, opposite, or sometimes 3-whorled; margins entire or toothed when young; hairs brown, glandular or stellate. Inflorescences of terminal panicles or thyrses. Flowers bisexual, zygomorphic. Sepals fused, deeply lobed; densely brown-hairy. Petals tubular, 2 lipped, with 2 upper and 3 lower lobes; purple or white. Stamen filaments attached to petals; 2 long and 2 short. Ovary superior; carpels fused. Fruit a loculicidal capsule. Seeds multi-winged. Worldwide: 1 genus and 7 species in temperate China, Taiwan, extending to Laos and Vietnam.
Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated genus and 1 cultivated taxon. |
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