Merrilliodendron
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Description
Shrub or generally tree.
Leaves spiral, entire, penninerved.
Flowers bisexual, arranged in lax cymes to elongate panicles, these 1-3 in foliate or defoliate axils, or from older branches resp. from trunk.
Sepals (3-)4-5, connate to a cup in the lower, free (and not imbricate) in the upper half.
Petals (4-)5, free, valvate, tip inflexed, villous inside, reflexed in anthesis, early caducous.
Stamens 5;
Ovary ovoid, tapering to a thick-filiform style;
Seed 1, large;