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Staples, G.W. & Herbst, D.R. (2005) A Tropical Garden Flora; plants cultivated in the Hawaiian islands and other tropical places. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Erect or spreading shrubs. Leaves opposite in tufts, subsessile, foetid when crushed. Inflorescence axillary or terminal, 1- or few-flowered. Flowers white; calyx lobes persistent; corolla funnel-shaped, hairy inside; lobes 4-6, edges touching in bud. Fruit a subglobose drupe with 2 pits. Worldwide: One or possibly 3 species native to eastern Asia. Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon. |
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