Schoepfia
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Description
Trees or shrubs, often root-parasites.
Leaves spiral, penninerved.
Flowers bisexual, fragrant, white or yellow, often heterostyled, in short racemes or corymbs;
Petals 4-5 (-6), inserted on the edge of the flower axis, connate in the lower ½-⅔ to a tubular-campanulate corolla, free and revolute above, with a tuft of hairs inside the tube behind each anther.
Stamens 4-5 (-6), epipetalous, the slender filaments adnate to the corolla tube for almost their full length, free at apex;
Upper half of the ovary superior, included by the disk, lower half within the flower axis, 3-celled below, 1-celled above;
Fruit drupaceous, subtended at base by the persistent epicalyx, crowned by the remains of calyx, disk and corolla;
Seed 1;