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Shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate or crowded, entire, ± sessile. Flowers borne in terminal clusters. Corolla with a long tube and short lobes, much exceeding the calyx. Stamens 5, attached at the same height on the corolla tube. Style often exserted. Capsule 3-valved, loculicidal. Derivation of name: a Peruvian name Worldwide: 6 species in the Andres Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon. |
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buxifolia Juss. ex Lam. |
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