Hunga
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Description
Shrubs or small trees.
Leaves usually glabrous on both surfaces (lanate beneath in some New Caledonian species), with a pair of, often obscure, marginal glands towards the base, without stomatal cavities;
Stipules lanceolate and persistent (absent or very early caducous in New Caledonian species).
Inflorescence a few-flowered terminal or axially raceme of cymules.
Flowers hermaphrodite, slightly zygomorphic.
Petals 5, small, not exceeding calyx lobes, not clawed.
Stamens 5-9, not exceeding calyx lobes, unilateral with 3-7 stami-nodes opposite.
Ovary inserted midway up receptacle, densely hairy on exterior;
Fruit small, fleshy, bilocular or often with one loculus underdeveloped;