Description
They are deciduous shrubs growing to 2–4 m tall. The leaves are paddle-shaped oval, 3–9 cm long, with an entire or bluntly serrated margin. The flowers are white, with five petals, produced in spring on the ends of the branches. The fruit is a dry coccetum consisting of five fused carpels, which split to release the flattened seeds. Lindley wrote in the original description of the genus "The free placentary chords external to the carpels have suggested the name of the genus."
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